Herbal Howlett is a small Southern Ontario natural-methods farm providing fresh produce, Microgreens, herbs, flowers and farm-raised rabbits, chickens, ducks, turkeys and eggs directly to health-conscious consumers.

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Microgreens!

We grow our microgreens to be sold LIVE.  That means that you get to keep them alive in your home until you're ready to use them.  You can snip off as much as you need in the moment, and leave the rest for another day.  Provided that you continue to water them, they will continue to stay alive for as much as a few weeks (refrigeration in a ventilated container will extend their lifespan), or for up to a week just on the counter.  No special equipment or lighting is required.

Our Microgreens were showcased last year at Simply For Life in Milton and at Indigo Lounge in Tillsonburg.

Our Live Microgreens are grown on 5"x5" hemp pads.  Hemp provides a great anchor for the root system, it's sustainably produced, has no adhesives or binders, and can be directly composted.  As a convenience, you can take your Live Microgreen block home in a recyclable plastic mini grow tray - that tray can be returned to me, and I'll sanitize & reuse it, or you can just recycle it in your blue box.  If you so choose, you can also bring your own containers and we'll just transfer your live microgreens on their hemp mat to your containers, for the least ecological impact.  Know that I continue to seek out alternative growing options that will help to deliver to you the freshest products with the least impact.  I am always receptive to suggestions for improvements, so please talk to me about what you've learned or send me links to alternate suppliers.

Our live microgreens will vary from time to time as I try out new seed stock and grow what you are asking for.  For our Microgreens CSA programs, we will grow to order, and you can select from any of the following varieties:

• Sunflower
• Green Tendril Peas
• Sweet Speckled Peas
  
• Kaiware (Spicy) Radish
• Fenugreek
• Buckwheat
  
• Curly Garden Cress (spicy)
  
• Oriental Wasabi Mustard
• Broccoli
• Crimson Clover
• Green Kale
  
• Red Cabbage
• Arugula
• Black Chia
  
• Broccoli-Brassica Blend (Broccoli, Broccoli Raab, Mustard)
  
• Smoothie Mix (Clover, alfalfa, other sweet & mild)
  
• Garlic Chives (requires 6-10 weeks notice to grow; not available on short subscriptions)
  
• Purple Thyme (not organic - requires specific added nutrients and 8-12 weeks growing time)
  
• Black Cumin (aka black seed) - requires 6-10 weeks to grow)
• Coriander (requires 5-8 weeks to grow)
• Millet
  
• Oat Grass
• Wheat Grass
• Kamut (ancient wheat)
  

CSA Program launched

Herbal Howlett does not use artificial anything in the growing or raising of its produce. In the this season, we will be providing fresh and dried herbs (culinary and healing), microgreens, vegetables, cut flowers, pastured poultry and rabbits. We sell at our farm-gate table Mondays through Fridays and at Tillsonburg Farmers Market on Saturdays, plus while at pickup locations in Milton, Mississauga and Bloor-West Village.

Our popular Veggies CSA programs feature a bushel or two (see below) of herbs, microgreens and veggies that we grow exclusively at our farm, using all-natural, no-spray methods.  See our facebook page for lots of pictures of what we put into our veggies CSA boxes each week.  Note that each week is different, and is based upon what is coming into season.  Enjoy what nature brings!  We don't try to force Mother Nature to do anything she doesn't want to do!

Check out  https://Herbal-Howlett.square.site to pre-order any of what we offer, or to subscribe to one of our CSA programs.  Note that the site contents will vary depending on season, and only produce that is excess to the needs of the CSA program are offered for online ordering or at the Farmers Market in Tillsonburg (Saturdays 8am-noon from May through mid-November).  Supply preference is always given to CSA boxes first, online orders second, with excess being offered at the market.

We offer CSA subscription programs that provide some food security for your family:
Full-Season (20 weeks, from May through September)
Part-Season (8 consecutive weeks, starting on the first Saturday of May, June, July or August)
Flex-10 and Flex-20 offer the flexibility of taking more than one box one week and none on another week - effectively skipping weeks when you might be on vacation, or doubling up when you have company coming.  Flex-10 provides 10 boxes, and Flex-20 provides 20 boxes.  At least one week notice is required for fulfilling the needs of a Flex-box.  Flex-boxes are the same sizes and contain the similar mixes of produce as the Full-season and Part-season CSA boxes.

We also now offer two different sizes of CSA boxes: Regular (about a bushel), and Super (about 2 bushels).  All are available for order on our online store at https://Herbal-Howlett.square.site.
So for example, you could order a Full-season Regular or a Full-season Super, or a Part-Season Super starting in July, etc.  Get the idea? Call me if you need help figuring out which program will best suit your family's needs at 1833-Howlett.

You can also save on eggs with our Eggs CSA, and on poultry and rabbit by pre-ordering - Pay half now and half when you pick up, and save close to 20%!!  How can I afford to offer these savings, you ask? Well it's simple.  If you wait until the last minute to decide, then I have to shell out for the purchase of the animal, for the purchase of the feed, for the enhancements, expansions and repairs to their housing, feeding and watering facilities.  Added up, all these outlays amount to a few thousand dollars.  If you help me out by pre-ordering, then your deposit helps to pay for those costs, and I'm reasonably confident that the rest of my costs will be covered once you pick up your birds, rabbits and eggs.  In past years, I raised some of these animals speculatively - I no longer do that; my time is best spent where I know that people will enjoy eating the products of my effort.

Herbal Howlett is a proud part of the Foodland Ontario and OntarioFresh programs.

Interested in something "more herbal"?  Sorry. Try somewhere else.  Maybe one day. But not today.