Adagio Acres

03/23/2026

So that was a wild month!
Running your own business means that you “technically” make your own schedule, but in reality are beholden to endless to-do lists and commitments. This winter however, we decided to abandon all responsibilities and take off for a 5 week bike trip with our kiddos (1,200km from Morocco to Portugal!). It was an incredible way to experience the beauty of the world and spend time together as a family!
Thanks to all of you who were patient as we shut down our website shop and wound down orders for the month. That being said, we are home now and the website shop is active once again, and we are back to our Wednesday delivery schedule. Pick-ups are available in South Osborne on Wednesday afternoons or Charleswood on Wednesday evenings. Looking forward to filling your porridge and soup pots once again with oats, beans, lentils, and flour.

12/18/2025

Reminder: Final day to order (or modify) your grain bundle!

But that aside, i’m super excited about this little cookbook that we pulled together for the mini bundle donations - simple recipes - favourite recipes - the kind that you can make every few weeks and not get tired of. And a million zillion thanks to Heather Lee who volunteered her time and expertise to put my jumble of notes together in a logical and beautiful way 😍 If you’re looking to use up the final bits and pieces of last year’s bundle, maybe a few of these will act as inspiration!

I plunked a pdf copy on the homepage of my website for anyone who would like to print one out or just browse through it, and we’ll print out a handful of copies for the CSA pick-up as well: https://adagioacres.com/

12/18/2025

Reminder: Final day to order (or modify) your grain bundle!

But that aside, i'm super excited about this little cookbook that we pulled together for the mini bundle donations - simple recipes - favourite recipes - the kind that you can make every few weeks and not get tired of. And a million zillion thanks to Heather Lee who volunteered her time and expertise to put my jumble of notes together in a logical and beautiful way 😍 If you're looking to use up the final bits and pieces of last year's bundle, maybe a few of these will act as inspiration!

I plunked a pdf copy on the homepage of my website for anyone who would like to print one out or just browse through it, and we'll print out a handful of copies for the CSA pick-up as well: https://adagioacres.com/

12/12/2025

Final day to order your winter grain bundle is Thursday, December 18th.

Just sent out a newsletter with all the newsletter-y updates. If you’re not on our email list (or if your spam folder is particularly spam-y), you can also view the newsletter here: https://adagioacres.com/?na=view&id=11

So very much looking forward to getting our Manitoba grown organic grains to so many of you in January!

Woohoo - Winter Grain Bundles are now available to order...with one small hiccup :( When you get to the checkout page, enter your contact information and then just press 'enter' after the email field. The button to submit the order won't work...yet...i'm working on it... Dismiss

12/01/2025

I know that our Grain CSA is not your normal shopping trip, but that's a feature not a bug!

As one of last year's customers explained: “It was so wonderful to be able to meet some of the farmers, and everyone was so positive and happy it just filled my heart with joy! I've never left any grocery store with such a smile!"

This video may help to visualize the pick-up day, but there will also be workshops, recipe sharing, a kids corner, and hopefully even an end-of-day potluck to turn grocery shopping on it's head!

Very much looking forward to seeing so many of you there :)

https://adagioacres.com/wintercsa/

11/27/2025

Hi friends - I've got an exciting project to share. The "Y-Not? Anti-Poverty Program" will be distributing 40 of our mini grain bundles to inner city families over the holiday break. The Y-Not? program has been providing recreational opportunities to inner-city youth for over 20 years, but have also been seeing the need for nutrition programming and support, and we are over-the-moon excited about this initiative!

These bundles will include our favorite and easiest to use items: rolled oats, red fife flour, popcorn, split lentils, pinto and black beans, split peas, wild rice and honey. Not exactly what's shown in the photo, but I haven't had time to take a new picture ;)

We're also working on making up some mini booklets to go along with these bundles that will provide some simple ideas and recipes. We'd love some help from you for this! If you have a tried-and-true recipe using one (or ideally multiple) items from this list, please leave your ideas in the comments or shoot me a message. Additional grocery items will be added to the bundles to enable these recipes to be made at home, so shelf-stable and accessible ingredients are a priority. Or if you have photography and/or graphic design skills and would have time for a project, that would also be incredible.

Finally, if you have contributed to our project to donate grain bundles to those in need, but you would like to receive a charitable tax receipt, the Y-Not project would accept additional donations to be able to expand these grain bundle offerings. Please reach out if you would like to send your donation in their direction. I'm SO excited about this, and can't wait to see it all in action 🥰

11/16/2025

I consider myself a word person. I love poetry and philosophy and often hijack conversations to interject with ideas from the latest book that i’ve been reading (errr...listening to while driving or doing fieldwork). In highschool, I was given the nickname of « Blind Optimist » for my tendency to ignore practical truths in favour of an imagined dream. I was « that » teenager who read Dostoevsky instead of watching the latest TV show. But farming is this interesting space where it really doesn’t matter what you think or say, there is a physical reality that will always have the final say. And I have been learning to love the linearity of physical tasks. Items that are checked off my to-do list at the mill are actually tangibly complete!

And so I have been getting a good start on cleaning and preparing many of the grains and pulses that will be available for the CSA. But what i’ve not been so good at is the communication side of things. The words that enable others to see or understand the work that we do. But I have been trying! Over the past week i’ve spent countless days trying to fix some website glitches...scouring through code in my website file manager that have left me barely further ahead then when I started.

If you’re not on our newsletter list you can read the rest of my musings and details about the upcoming CSA here:

https://adagioacres.com/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php?action=tnp&na=v&nk=1898-e200b7f03d&id=10

11/05/2025

I’ve had a few people reach out to ask about the grain CSA for this coming year. I’m a bit behind the ball, but the ball will roll…eventually! Today im getting the bees moved to a more sheltered spot for the winter, and once they’re wrapped up (literally wrapped in insulation…) I’ll get working on my website. It’s next to next on my to-do list I promise!

Thanks for everyone who has reached out already…it means the world to me that there is a community of eaters and cooks and farmers and friends who believe in this project!

09/18/2025

Those who have been following my very occasional social media posts know that I have caught the the bug - the beekeeping bug! Throughout the summer I have grown delirious with amazement at all these little critters do, how they organize their societies and share responsibilities, and the role they can play on our farm. We are transitioning away from hay production on some of our fields and using more clover for seed production and to support pollinators. This year it's all new (20 hives, about a million bees, dozens of bee-stings...countless hours of waggle-dance-watching...thousands of pounds of hive maneuvering...). I wasn't expecting to have any excess honey beyond what the bees will need to feed their larvae and support their growing colonies. But the end of summer was generous to us, and most hives produced an extra box of honey beyond what they need for themselves, so we have honey to share!

I will have a limited quantity available to sell, and this will be a direct pick-up option only in Winnipeg on Wednesday, September 24th between 6:30 and 7:30pm at Aubrey Park and then another pick-up on Wednesday October 1 between 6:30 and 7:30pm at the CMU parking lot (Shaftsbury Ave). On farm pick-up is also available (almost) any time 🙂 I will be enabling just a limited number of customers at each pick-up day, so I will remove the option from my website when capacity has been reached. Additional grains from our website shop (oats, cornmeal, beans, etc.) can also be added on to these orders. Home delivery and Refill Market pick-ups are not available for honey orders.

This will be a zero-waste (bring your own jars) pick-up. I will have 5 gallon pails of honey with spigots on the bottom of the pails and you will need to bring your own jars to fill up with the quantity that you have purchased. I will have a weigh scale to tare your containers and fill them to the requested quantity.

Pricing is $6 per pound for quantities between 1 and 4lbs, $5 per pound for quantities between 5 and 19 pounds, and $4.75 per pound for quantities of 20 pounds and more. At the cart page you can adjust the number of pounds you would like to order and the pricing will be adjusted for your chosen quantity.

Looking forward to sharing the harvest 🙂

https://adagioacres.com/product/clover-honey/

08/30/2025

Wow - that was a week! Harvested the last field of oats (despite all my bellyaching they are looking just fine…guess I’m just a complainer 😁), disced up a field of alfalfa to plant a new crop of oats next spring (purple blossoms being worked into the soil = nitrogen from the atmosphere turned into nutrients for people…it’s kind of like magic!), had manure from a neighbour spread onto another field (💩=phosphorus!), and extracted our first batch of honey. And good conversations with friends and fellow farmers to round it off. This farming thing is like being a very small cog in an incredibly complex dance of plants, animals, water, minerals, and a handful of unknowns. I’m grateful to be part of it all!

08/25/2025

It’s been that kind of a summer…
Spent 2.5 hours this morning setting up the precleaning line (to remove the smaller and wetter seeds before putting the oats into a bin for storage). The grain truck needs to line up perfectly to the auger to the rotary cleaner to another auger to a grain cart. Ran it all for about 12 minutes before it started to rain and everything needed to get put away inside again. Keeping our fingers crossed for clearer skies next time…
Still one field left to harvest, we need a bit of luck on our side to get oats that are a good enough quality to mill 😢

08/18/2025

Fields are ready to harvest, grain bins are swept out and ready for new crop (not exactly my favourite job…), and now just waiting for clear skies and warmer weather!