About our Farm:
Welcome to Cirrus Hill Farm, our small family farm in Meaford Ontario.
On our farm, overlooking Georgian Bay, we tend a vibrant ecosystem where everything is interconnected. Our gardens are bursting with birds and helpful insects, producing a bounty of delicious, nutrient-rich vegetables. We have never needed pesticides, relying instead on natural and organic methods to keep our soil healthy and our crops and small orchard thriving.
Beyond the garden, our pastures are home to our traditionally raised animals. Our small flocks of heritage breed turkeys, chickens and piglets have room to roam, forage and play in the sunshine. A happy life also means meat that is incredibly flavorful and of the highest quality.
Cirrus Hill Farm is our home. We raise the kind of food that we want to eat and share with our neighbours, while adopting organic and regenerative systems where ever possible, and think it’s the best way to live, work and eat, on the land.
Join us for the first annual Cirrus Hill Spring Plant Sale! You will find many unique, and staple varieties of veggies and herbs to get your garden started this season. Find more details and RSVP to our Facebook event here:
https://www.facebook.com/share/18NfGPMm6S
Variety List:
Variety List page 1
Tomatoes:
Celebrity Queen Marbenna
Nile River Woodle Orange
Bush Beefsteak Genuwine
Mountain Magic Italian Family Heirloom Mountain Merit Mystery Keeper
Black Cherry Oaxacan Jewel
Sweet 100 Ruby Treasure
Sun Sugar Winter Heart
Marbonne
Marmango
Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye
Paul Robeson
Romus*
San Marzano, bush plum type
Amish Paste, vine Oxheart type
Kellogg’s Breakfast
Sun of Sardinia
Black Beauty
Brown and Black Boar
Black Krim
Black Prince
Country Taste
Green Zebra
Tasmanian Chocolate
Chocolate Stripes
Cherokee Purple
Pink Brandywine (Sidduth’s strain)
Radiator Charlie’s Mortgage Lifter
Costuluto Genovese
Stupice
Purple Boy
Zapotec
Variety List page 2
Peppers:
Jalapeno
Poblano
Aleppo
Serrano
Cayenne – Sichuan
Sweet Large Bell, green/red
Sweet Large Bell green/yellow
Sweet Oxhorn Italian green/red
Sweet Oxhorn Italian green/yellow
Sweet Mini-Bell green/red snacking
Padron – Spanish Tapis
Thor’s Thunderbolt
Peach Ghost
Jamaican Scotch Bonnet
Sugar Rush Peach
Ghost Scorpion
Eggplant:
Black Beauty
Traviatta
Black Stallion
Italian Mezzo-Lunga
Violet of Toulouse
Chinese
Tomatillo:
Toma Verde
Variety List page 3
Globe Artichoke:
Imperial Star
Okra:
Best sown directly after June 1
Spinach, and Summer substitutes:
Matador (traditional Spring)
Perpetual (a delicate cutting chard)
New Zealand (summer spinach)
Malabar (Indian or Ceylon Spinach, a tropical vine)
Herbs:
Basils: large variety
Cilantro
*Dill
Sage
Mints
Perilla, (Korean Sesame) bicolour
Lemon Grass
Brassicas:
Broccoli
Raab
Spigarello
Cauliflower
Curly leaf Kale
Chinese Kale and other greens
Spring Cabbage
*Napa
Radichio Chicory
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Variety List page 4 (in progress)
*Peas:
Chinese specialties:
Tong Ho
Shiso
*Pak Choy
Chinese Kale
Many more coming
Lettuce:
Chinese Stem Celery – Celtuce
Salad mix Cos type Winter Density and Redwing Blackbird
Celery:
Ventura
Tijian Chinese
Purple Stem
Telus Celeriac
Giant Prague Celeriac
Radish
*
Cucumber:
*
Watermelon: Round northern adapted, open pollinated
Wilson’s Sweet, Winter King and Queen (storage)
Leelanau Sweetglo, Sugar Baby Icebox
Variety List page 5
Sweet Melons: Northern adapted
Sivan F1 PMR charentais, Collective Farm Woman (canary)
Crane (Crenshaw), Banana Melon (ancient), Brilliant F1 (canary)
*
Zucchini: c. pepo
Summer squash: Heirloom OP
Malachite Ukraine, Rugosa Friulana Italy, Patisson Golden Scallop France
Zucchini:
*Disease resistant hybrids:
Mexicana (grey),
Aeronaut(dark green)
Deema (light green kousa/anita).
Aspirant (pale green Florentine)
*Heirloom open pollinated:
Lebanese White (pale, bulbous shape),
Mutabile (dark green)
Costata Romanesco (Queen of the Italian zucchinis!)
Winter Squash:
Butternut family, (C. Moschata):
Ayote green flesh,Seminole, Tahitian Melon, Ponca baby butternut, Honeynut Baby Butternut, Brulee Baby Butternut, Butterbush,
Canada Crookneck
Variety List page 6
Culinary Pumpkins: (C. Maxima) most are of indigenous origin:
North Georgia Candy Roaster, Guatemalan Blue,
Boston Marow, Amish Pie Pumpkin, Sibley Pike’s Pike,
Juane Gros de Paris, Queensland Blue, Blue Hubbard,
Australian Butter, Buen Gusto de Horno,Piacentina,
Oregon Homestead Sweetmeat, Marina di Chioggia,
Jumbo Pink Banana, Uncle Davis’s Dakota Dessert,
Burgess Buttercup, Warted Green Hubbard,
Hokkaido Red Kuri, Blue Ballet mini-Hubbard,
Nicaise, Lakota Squash
Modern improved types:
Sunshine F1 kabocha, Bei-Bei Chinese mini kabocha (trellis)
Wintersweet hyb. kabocha, Orange Summer, early kabocha
Acorn relatives (C. Pepo)
Pinnacle Spaghetti, Stripetti Hybrid, Algonquian Pumpkin, New England Sugar Pie, Winter Luxury Pie,
Candlestick Dessert Delicata, Sugar Loaf Hessel
Fisher’s Acorn
Cushaw Squash: C. Argyrosperma
Illinois White
Sweet Potato slips:
Orange flesh, orange skin, Bayou Belle, Bellevue