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...
by Jackie Fraser | Jun 26, 2024 | Updates!
Do you recognize this logo? Does the jingle “Good things grow-whoa-whoa…in Ontar-iii-ooo” ring a bell? The Foodland Ontario program dates back to 1977, with a mission to promote the great taste, nutrition, and economic benefits of buying local. More than 90% of...
by Jackie Fraser | Jun 19, 2024 | Updates!
Kurt Oelschlagel founded Harriston Packing Co. in 1967 after coming to Canada from Germany and settling in Harriston, Ontario. Kurt’s family upbringing in the German meat trade, combined with his innate ability to connect with people and serve the needs of his...
