Flying Moon Farm
at the Markets
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Savour Lia’s passion for regenerative practices and delicious edibles at the Carleton Place and Parkdale Farmer's Markets.
Our hand-crafted goods tell our story of tending to the land and the more-than-humans we live with. They’re our way of sharing the gifts of a place we love with our community. Each week our booth offerings are inspired by what’s in season and Lia’s creative flavour combinations.
Fresh, Preserved & Crafted Goods
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Fresh
Yummy baked goods featuring Lia’s uniquely flavoured sweet and savoury garden-themed focaccia, orange-pecan-maple sticky buns, and fresh in-season garden produce.
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Preserved
Delectable dried herbs and preserves made from our garden’s abundance and our regenerative foraging practices including forest tea blends, spreads or pickles that pair with our focaccia or your culinary creatives.
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Crafted
Offers born from our cooperative relationship with our little flock of sheep friends, including felted soaps and other fibre arts projects.
Could you use a little uplift?
Stop by our booth and enjoy a free story card. These short tales of connection between the horses, sheep, forest and more-than-humans that call this farm home are filled with mystery and mayhem and we love to share them as fuel for joy and imagining a more beautiful world.
We're eager to meet you.
The Story Of Our Offerings
Our market offerings started with a simple daily task ... picking up 300 pounds of horse manure and tending to the composting process. The practice was born out of a commitment to keep the horse fields clean as one part of fostering their health and well-being. Soon, as you can imagine, we had piles and piles of composted soil.
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As the sheep arrived (how that came to be is another story), their annual shearing provided bags and bags of wool.
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Gardens were started, and then eaten by the sheep who had love for wandering. New gardens were built, hugelkultur style, in enclosed raised beds, making use of the tin roofing left behind. The sheep manure and some of their wool provided cover and further fertilisation. We learned how to felt. Searching for projects that would be useful and beautiful, our felted soap creations came to life.
​The land and the more-than-humans kept providing. Herbs like motherwort, stinging nettle, wild camomile and more (we’ve now tracked 40+) kept showing up and growing around the house and in the horse fields. Old, rotting hay left by the horses on the ground became perfect winter cover for the gardens. Everything, it seemed, offered something and the idea of waste came into question at every turn as the forest and wildscape continued schooling us in regenerative relationships.
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Lia, a tenacious researcher and lover of baking, making and unusual flavours, wondered, what might be inspired by reaching out to the community and sharing handmade goods imbibed with the unique stories of this place? Every item lovingly crafted has, at its heart, an image of shared meals, good conversation, and a celebration of our deep interconnection with tapestry of life.
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Who’s behind the booth? Lia of course … and the sheep, the horses, the stinging nettle, the ugly-beautiful tin gardens and more!
Our 2024 Market Schedule:
7 Beckwith St, Carleton Place, ON K7C 2T1
May 11
May 25
June 8
June 22
July 6
July 13
July 20
July 27
August 3
August 10
August 17
August 24
August 31
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Booth 64, 366 Parkdale Ave, Ottawa, ON K1Y 1G8
July 10
July 17
July 24
July 31
August 7
August 14
August 21
August 28
September 4
September 11
September 18
September 25
September 7
September 14
September 21
September 28
October 5
October 12
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Follow us on Instagram @flying.moon.farm to get our weekly flavour recipes and alerts for pop-up markets at the farm