Food and Community

Polka Dot Hen Produce is the market garden enterprise located at Bird’s Nest Garden Farm. Bird’s Nest Garden Farm is our off-grid homestead located about 20 minutes north of Wiarton.

With our friends and visitors, we love to exchange great ideas about gardening, small-scale farming, permaculture, cooking and off-grid living. 

Visitors to our place experience a beautiful regenerating landscape while breathing the fresh air of the countryside. The Bruce Trail is nearby for excursions into the forest.

Longterm, our farm goal is to be a hub for folks to: 

  • learn about growing their own food
  • learn about cooking with fresh local ingredients
  • learn about natural small scale farming methods
  • get outside!

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Our Methods

Bees, butterflies and birds are welcome partners in the gardens.

We create and improve habitat for our wild neighbours through the use of pollinator gardens and the planting of native tree and shrubs.

We use no synthetic fertilizer, herbicides or insecticides on the farm.

Our growing methods encourage soil health. We rely on compost, minerals and no-till growing methods to feed our soil biology.

Each summer sees a different group of livestock moving across the pasture to enhance the soil biology and diversity.

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