by Jackie Fraser | Sep 18, 2024 | Holidays, Updates!
Take the stress and mess out of your family gathering and let us do the cooking! Our famous turkey dinner specials grow in popularity every eating holiday. Chefs Derek and Greg season and roast 15-17lb fresh local turkeys then vac pack them in pieces (breasts and...
by Jackie Fraser | Sep 4, 2024 | Updates!
Did you know we roast our own deli meat in house? Our store-made roast beef is legendary – think Sunday night roast leftovers for the best roast beef sandwiches on earth! We roast beef flats in our kitchen, seasoned with Montreal steak spice – no added nitrates –...
by Jackie Fraser | Jul 31, 2024 | Updates!
Join us as we celebrate Food Day Canada this weekend! The late Anita Stewart, who was a friend and enthusiastic Fraberts supporter, started this event to help Canadian beef farmers through the BSE (mad cow) crisis over twenty years ago. The annual event has grown to...
by Jackie Fraser | Jul 17, 2024 | Updates!
It’s blueberry season in Ontario and we are please to offer both wild (lowbush) and cultivated (highbush) blueberries at Fraberts. Wild blueberries are harvested from forests or farms in northern Ontario, Quebec, or the Maritimes. They are much smaller in size and...
by Jackie Fraser | Jul 10, 2024 | Updates!
It’s true…let’s celebrate the “day neutral” strawberry! While “June bearing” strawberry plants flower according to day length, day neutral plants continue to flower and produce fruit as long as it’s warm enough – from late May until frost in Ontario. Instead of three...
by Jackie Fraser | Jul 3, 2024 | Updates!
Garlic scapes are weird squirrelly green stalks that grow from the garlic bulb at this time of year. The stalk often includes a bud, which would flower if left on the bulb. Scapes are usually removed and discarded by farmers to allow the garlic plant to channel its...
