What a beautiful head of hair!!! Sophie is still pretty much a baldy at 18 months; some, but not much hair. I admire your determination. I got tired just reading about the 100 mile food day. I love the shots of Frances with the animals -- so precious.

Aw! Cute baby animals! How sweet, the pics of Frances with all the animals!

I loved hearing about all the fruit. I love fruit. I should make more of an effort to see if there's a farmer's market in the area where we could go berry picking. Chalk that up as a thing on my To do list! Yum!

How perfect!! So fun...much more enjoyable for all. I should see if there is something similar here. Like you, most of the stuff in our organic hamper or at Loblaws isn't local. We did have organic Quebec strawberries tho...and they were good!

So much fun! Thanks for the inspiration. At the moment we are trying to deal with too much fruit and (ick) too many fruitflies.

Such fun pictures! It's so great you found a place close to where you live. Yay for Google! I just realized how easy it is for me to take the convenience of some things here for granted. (Never thought I'd say those words, living in The-Middle-Of-Nowhere, PEI! LOL!)There is a farm (one of many)about a five minute walk up the road from us that sells organic produce in the summer. What we don't grow in our garden, we just get from there. Now that I think about it, in addition to all the potato farms, there is also a poultry farm, a mushroom farm, AND a dairy farm all just minutes up the road from us. Living in the country does have some perks, I guess! Thanks for the eye opener,Andrea. I have a new found appreciation for the "sweet" smell of the country!

That looks like just about the perfect day. And reminds me to head to the farmer's market this evening with Annika, too.

Do you have CSA farms up there? We have them here and that's another great way to get fresh, local, in-season produce.

They won't be quite as entertaining as that farm, though. That sounds like fun.

Julia, I've looked and I haven't found any yet. We have some online organic grocers, but they order from all over the world. It kind of surprises me that I can't find one, actually, considering the size of the market.

Amy--haha, ah the convenience of country living. No Chapters, but four farms in walking distance. Actually, the dairy thing is turning out to be a bit of a bear. Harrumph.

Madeleine, in my world, one fruit fly is too many. ;)

"Loblaws" is a real name? As in Arrested Development's Bob Loblaw?

...I guess so. I mean, I'm sure it has nothing to do with Bob, but yes, it's a real name. Or at least a real store.

Yes, one fruit fly is too many for me, too. We are slowly decimating the population, partly by eating as much fruit as we can and partly, sadly, by tossing the too-far-gone stuff.

There is organic CSA around here. I've seen articles but haven't been brave enough to face the unknown vegetable factor with a kindergartner.

This is one I read about, and they list a bunch of pick-up spots. Maybe one is somewhere near you:
http://www.planborganicfarms.ca/site/reserve.html

Though the farm might be a better choice now that you know about it! As long as you can always spare an hour and a half for shopping+fun.

What wonderful photos! This post reminds me of the organic CSA my sister belongs to (in New England). We had a wonderful time going out with her and the kids to pick up her share--lots of fun playing with some animals and romping around a yard.

By the way, the pedantic grammarian in the back of my head popped up later to remind me that "slowly decimating" is an oxymoron because decimating means "killing ten at a time" which we definitely weren't.

Madeleine, that does look nice--unfortunately, nowhere near us. Oh well. I'll keep looking, and in the meantime, I have the farm. And wow, that must really have been bugging you if you came back to fix it two days later!

Bugging me, get it, get it? Giggles.