Thinking Outside the Box: Currie’s CSA Program

Currie’s Farm Market decided to take a fresh new approach to the traditional CSA Program in 2014, and we haven’t looked back. We wanted to offer a flexible, no risk program designed for customers who wanted to support local food and farms, while offering a share system that would allow them to purchase whatever they wanted, whenever they want during our farm market season (no weekly baskets or unwanted ingredients!), while receiving a return on their investment to show our appreciation.

Share Card Accounts will be available for the 2024 season beginning on April 1st, until midnight on May 12th. Prior to opening day, we will set you up with a Share Card Account, with your account balance safely stored on our Point of Sale system. All you have to do is come on in, pick your favourites and simply provide the account number you have chosen to access your account, each time you check out. After each purchase you will receive your remaining account balance. There are absolutely no restrictions on what and when you can purchase throughout the season*, as every single one of your purchases supports local food and a local farm.

*Share Card Account balances must be used in full by 6:00 p.m. on December 23rd, 2024.

For more information on the Currie’s Farm Market Share Card Account program, or to purchase your Share Cards beginning April 1st 2024, please click on the button below.

Flavours of Fall:
Winter Squash!

Nothing signals the changing of seasons more than the locally grown food we enjoy throughout the year. As the days become shorter and we spend more time indoors, we seek to enjoy heartier meals with roasted root vegetables. This season, we have an abundance of our own organically grown squash, with a variety to suit every home cooked meal. Some of our favourites include:

Delicata: This small, cylindrical squash is pale yellow, with green stripes. With a flavour somewhere between a sweet potato and a butternut squash, it makes for a perfect side dish when halved lengthwise and roasted.

Carnival: This squash is as fun and beautiful as the name suggests. It’s colourful skin makes for a great fall decoration, but it can also be roasted on it’s own or stuffed and baked for a vibrant and delicious meal.

Buttercup: This squash has a dark green exterior and a flesh that becomes super creamy and sweet when cooked.

Butternut: Shaped like a bulb with thick, tan exterior skin. A bit hard to cut into (we suggest poking through the flesh in several places with a sharp knife and microwaving the squash for about 3 minutes to soften the skin), but has a sweet and creamy flesh that lends itself well to mashing or roasting.

Acorn: Shaped like an acorn nut and also known as a Pepper Squash due to it’s more peppery flavour. Dark green skin that becomes tender when roasted and can be prepared as either a savoury or sweet side dish.

Stop by today and give a new variety a try!

The Reason for The Season: Keeping it Local

People often ask us why we choose to close down over the winter months. With our new expanded space, commercial kitchen and a heated building (for the first time since 1957), wouldn’t it make sense to be open year round? We have considered it. But when we took over the family business 12 years ago, we made it our mission to remain true to the family farm and how we, as well as other local farms and food producers, could benefit our community. We believed that staying true to our mission would always guarantee the best tasting & most nutritious food, while supporting our environment and the local economy. Here are some reasons why:

Local food, especially produce, is extremely fresh and always tastes better than nonlocal items.

Fruits and veggies harvested daily at the peak of ripeness can stay on the vine to ripen longer, making them sweeter, juicier, and tastier.

Since locally grown produce usually doesn’t have to travel very far or sit in storage for long, it retains more nutrients.

Supporting local farmers helps maintain green spaces and farmland in your area. Local farms that use sustainable practices boost biodiversity, protect pollinators, and promote clean air, water, and soil

When you buy local food, your money is likely to continue to circulate within the local economy and contribute to increased employment and income.

Currie’s Own

We’re sticklers for quality. So when a stalk of asparagus is a little too crooked, or a zucchini gets bruised on the way in from the field, it doesn’t quite make the cut. Instead of spending our evenings freezing asparagus and baking zucchini loaf, we decided to create a line of Currie’s Own preserves. And what we don’t grow ourselves, we source locally for you.