NS Organic Farmers

• PEIFarmers
• New Brunswick Farmers
• Angelhoeve Organic Farm - Come visit this old fashioned mixed farmlocated in Canning.
• Ballymena Farm - organic grains galore
• Boates Farm - An experienced father-son team of apple farmers.
• Boulangerie La Vendeenne - Try their fresh organic breads at various locations throughout the province.
• Bruce Family Farm - A mixed farm that has been in the family for generations.
• Casson Family Farm - This vegetable farm, located in Tatamagouche, is a great place to visit
• Ecocentric Organic Farm - organic culinary herbs
• Farmásea Co-op Ltd. - handcrafted organic salves and ointments
• Farmer John’s Herbs - This organic processor packs a lot of spice into its business.
• Forever Green Organic Farm - Seven generations of high quality farming.
• Four Seasons Farm - Innovative and experimental, variety and quality.
• Foxmill Ltd - local and organic specialty oils: flax, sunflower, canola and more!
• Hope Seeds and Perennials - organic heirloom seeds for all of your vegetable needs.
• Horse and Garden Farm - CSA, raspberry U-pick, horses and more.
• Inglis Orchard View - 32 varieties of apples!
• Ironwood Farms - a place to slow down and notice the delightful aspects of farm life.
• Joe's Juice Co. - Healthy wheatgrass super juice!.
• Katie’s Farm and Organic Dog Bakery - Dogs deserve organic too!
• Lazy Brook Farm - Organic blueberries and a healing touch.
• Nova Bluewater Farm - Organic vegetables grown on a seaside hill-top in DeBaies Cove.
• Oakhaven Organic Farm - Try delicious organic granola and fresh bread in Granville Ferry.
• Oakmanor Farm - You can find this mixed farm in Hants County.
• Pinnacle Farm - Animals cared for with love and compassion.
• Pumpkin Moon Herb Farm - Vibrant and fresh herbal teas.
• Shani's Farm - organic food for life.
• Stewart Organic Farms - Apples, apple cider, highbush blueberries, and other mixed berries.
• Suprima Farms - Come visit this Kyoto friendly orchard, located in Sheffield Mills.
• TapRoot Farms - 2010 Outstanding Young Farmers with the largest CSA in Atlantic Canada.
• Van Meekeren - unique organic apple variety "wink".
• Waldegrave Farm - Combining old techniques with new ideas.
• Wild Rose Farm - organic gourmet farm

Oakhaven Organic Bakery

“A wood-burning oven of this size is completely suited to human bread baking,” says Doug Brown as he pulls loaves of bread from the oven of Oak Haven Organic Farm’s bakery. The one-room bakery is a recent addition to 130 year-old farmhouse where Doug lives with his wife, Joy Elliott, and their four children.

Doug mixes and kneads all of the bread by hand. And these aren’t fluffy white loaves. Instead, they are naturally-leavened hearty breads made with spelt and kamut flour. Doug also makes pita breads, granola, and sweets, and all of the baked goods are certified organic by Maritime Certified Organic Growers.

Doug likes the pace of the wood-burning oven, even though baking days are long and strenuous. He gets up 5:30 a.m. and starts the fire in the four-foot deep oven. The wood comes from a neighbour who makes runners for lobster traps. Doug buys the hardwood slabwood in four-foot lengths.

While it burns, he has time to make the dough for the bread and pitas. When the fire has burned down somewhat, he pushes the coals to the back and bakes pitas at the front. While this is happening, the bread is rising. After the pitas are taken out, he rakes the coals over the bottom of the oven, closes the door and lets the oven absorb the heat. Later, he cleans out the coals and puts in the loaves of bread. This happens around 1:30 p.m. From 6:00 a.m. until the bread goes in, Doug works constantly, not even stopping for lunch until about 10 pm in the evening finally retiring while the breads cool on the racks.  Next morning, he’s up before dawn to slice, bag and package the breads for delivery.

All of the ingredients are certified organic and almost all of them come from Speerville Flour Milling Cooperative in New Brunswick. Some of the ingredients, such as the oatmeal and spelt flour are from grain grown by members of the Speerville cooperative and other ingredients, such as the sunflower seeds, are retailed by Speerville. Doug wishes that there were enough organic growers in the Maritimes to supply Speerville with even more products.

For Maritime consumers who want to buy local baked goods, Oak Haven bread is the perfect choice. Not only is made by a Nova Scotian, but the grain is milled in New Brunswick, the maple syrup for the granola is from Maritime trees, and the fuel used to bake the bread isn’t electricity or propane, but is local wood. Even the courier used to deliver the bread is a local courier, not a national company with headquarters in central Canada.

Buying local may be a vague concept, but it hits home when you see a farm family like Doug and Joy’s managing to live on a beautiful organic farm thanks to the support of their customers. The bread label for Oak Haven’s bread states “Bread that’s good for the body, soul and planet.” I couldn’t agree more.

Oakhaven Bakery - SELL SHEET