News flash! BearHaven is at the Thunder Bay Country Market on Saturday mornings!  Come on down to the CLE. Lots of parking.

Thank you to everyone who attended my talks on soil (specifically, Fort William Sandy Loam – you have great soil, Fort William!) for the Ogden-Simpson Veggie Garden Project in March and May. Keep up the good growing.
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Greetings! Wendy O’Connor here, near Thunder Bay in Northwest Ontario, Canada.

Our first apple! (a Norland)

BearHaven is my market garden enterprise – named for the polite yearly spring visit of a bear, who helps to turn over my compost, leaves some fertilizer in my orchard, and then goes away.

I would like to use this site to share information. When I came to Northwest Ontario I was full of questions about what could be grown locally. Also, I was continuing to explore natural methods of growing – that is, growing with minimal use of manufactured fertilizers and pesticides.

(I use no manufactured pesticides at all in my market garden, and only naturally sourced fertilizers, with an emphasis on local supply.)

The relevance of this site need not be merely local. Much of the information and ideas we share here can be used anywhere in the world – and, who knows where our discussions could lead! A topic about rutabagas could lead to rutabaga recipes, “how rutabagas changed my life”, and the cosmic significance of rutabagas.

Thanks for “bearing” with me as I add to this site, which is still fairly new (begun in April 2009). You can add to the site yourself by commenting the blog articles.

Best of luck with your own endeavours in 2010!

~Wendy O’Connor den@bearhaven.ca