It's easier than ever to order online and have us delivered.

The goal has always been real simple - make real food easier to get.

Our Freezer Filler Event is all about making it easier to stock your freezer with food you can feel good about feeding your family. Real meat from local farms. No shortcuts, no mystery ingredients, and no wondering where it came from.

Whether you’re looking for beef, pork, chicken, sausage, or one of our bundled freezer packs, this is a great opportunity to save while supporting local farmers who are committed to raising food the right way. Stock up, save a little money, and enjoy the peace of mind that comes from knowing exactly what’s on your plate.

Real Food. Real Meat. Local Farms. Stock up and save while supplies last. 🥩🐖🐓❤️

JOIN OUR CREW

Looking for a meaningful way to spend a few hours each week?

We’re building something different at Small Scale Farms. A place where local food, community, and resilience come together.

Volunteer opportunities include:
• Sorting and packing produce
• Helping in the gardens
• General farm and property projects
• Community events and workshops

Whether you’re looking to learn new skills, meet great people, give back, or simply spend more time connected to where your food comes from, we’d love to meet you.

No experience necessary.

4-Hour Volunteer Shifts Available

Learn. Connect. Grow.

SMALL SCALE FARMS
13145 Lundy’s Lane

Message us to get involved.

Last Chance!

A hands-on program designed to help teens build confidence, independence, and real-world skills through food, tools, animals, and land-based learning.

Limited to 12 spots to ensure a small, focused group.

10% OFF*

*Use code 10%OFF at the checkout

FARM SHARE NIAGARA

Last Chance to Join Our Summer Farm Share!

Registration closes soon, and once this season begins, that’s it.

For 12 weeks, you’ll receive a fresh selection of local produce, hand-picked based on what’s in season. Better flavour, better freshness, and a simple way to support local farms while filling your fridge with real food.

If you’ve been thinking about eating better, shopping more intentionally, or making local food part of your routine, this is the perfect place to start.

Join today!

FARM SHARE NIAGARA

Delivery beings this coming week.

Ticks are bad this year, mosquitoes are showing up, and many people are looking for alternatives to chemical sprays.

Neem oil has been used for centuries as a natural way to deter a wide range of insects. It’s derived from the neem tree and is popular with gardeners, homesteaders, pet owners, and people who spend a lot of time outdoors.

Whether you’re gardening, walking the dog, hiking a trail, or simply enjoying time in your backyard, a little prevention can go a long way when it comes to avoiding unwanted pests.

If you’re spending more time outdoors this season, now is a good time to make sure you’re prepared. Prevention is always easier than dealing with ticks after they’ve already found you.

Come shop our market at 13145 Lundy’s Lane.

We've got great sales on right now.
Fresh local strawberries are in and priced at just $6 a pint, along with plenty of other produce specials throughout the store.
Some items are seconds, some are as fresh as fresh gets, but all of it is real food. We're doing everything we can to make good food not only accessible, but affordable.
Our meat, milk, eggs, chips, wraps, and specialty products are all carefully selected, with many sourced from farmers and producers right here in our community.

Our Local Challenge started as a way to support local farmers, but the more I think about it, the more I realize it’s really a health challenge too.

Summer is busy. It’s easy to grab food on the go, swing through a drive-thru, or pick up something convenient because you’re tired and short on time. We’ve all done it. But those choices add up over weeks, months, and years.

What if, instead of focusing on what not to eat, we focused on adding more local food into our lives?

One extra local meal a week. One basket of local produce. One decision to choose food that was picked yesterday instead of something that spent days or weeks travelling.

The Local Challenge isn’t about perfection. It’s about making small changes that move us in the right direction. More real food. More local food. More connection to the people growing it.

Because health isn’t built in a day. It’s built one meal, one choice, and one habit at a time.

And it starts with us. 🌱💚

Sausage Burger Lover

A little bit of everything from the farm.

This sampler is perfect for families who want to stock the freezer, try a variety of our most popular products, or simply enjoy locally raised meat from trusted Niagara farmers.

Included:

• 1 lb Salt & Pepper Sausage
• 1 lb Honey Garlic Sausage
• 1 lb Mild Italian Sausage
• 1 lb Hot Italian Sausage
• 1 lb Sweet Maple Sausage
• 3 lb Ground Beef
• 3 lb Ground Pork
• 1 Small Pack Hot Beef & Pork Pepperettes

For a limited time, we'll also include 3 lb of broth bones at no extra charge.

All meat is raised without antibiotics and without added hormones.

Whether you're making burgers, pasta, chili, breakfast, soups, or hearty family dinners, this bundle gives you plenty of options while introducing you to some of our favourite products.

Most conventional sausages and processed meats contain added nitrates and nitrites as preservatives. More and more families are trying to reduce those ingredients where they can — especially when it comes to food they eat regularly.

That’s why Comfort Farms’ nitrate free heritage pork sausages have become such a favourite around here. Real pork. Real seasoning. No unnecessary fillers or added nitrates. Just honest food raised locally by Bob and Leslie Comfort right here in Niagara.

Now on SALE - $3 off

NOW $70 OFF REGULAR PRICE. 

The All Beef Share is built to give you real, versatile cuts that actually make meals easier throughout the week. From steaks to slow-cooked roasts, to broth and everyday ground, this is the kind of food that fills your freezer with purpose.

Comfort Farms provides beef you can trust — raised without antibiotics, 95% (no spray) grass fed, non gmo grain finished, handled properly, and meant to be used fully, not just the premium cuts. This is how beef is supposed to be.

Fresh produce, thoughtfully sourced and priced to move. We bring in a wide mix of everyday staples and seasonal favourites so you can fill your kitchen with more real food for less, all in one stop.

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Our Pick & Pack line was built for real life. Fresh fruit and vegetables at prices that actually make sense — because we work hard to move food, reduce waste, and keep good food accessible for more families. 

How does it work? You grab a red 1/2 bushel basket, walk the section, and fill it with what your household will actually eat. No subscriptions. No pressure. Just affordable, fresh food in a way that feels simple again. Some weeks it’s farm fresh, some weeks it’s rescue food, some weeks it’s both — but the goal is always the same: keep good food moving through the community instead of watching it get priced out or thrown away.

We’ve been going through so many produce vouchers lately, and honestly, it’s showing us just how many people are quietly struggling right now.

Healthy food shouldn’t feel out of reach. Families, seniors, single parents, and people working full-time jobs are still finding themselves needing a little extra help just to get real food on the table.

If you’ve ever added a voucher to the wall, donated toward fresh produce, or helped someone access healthy food through Small Scale Farms — thank you. It matters more than you probably realize.

And if anyone else would like to contribute to the voucher wall, we could truly use the support right now. People need to eat healthy food.

🛒 How Ordering Online Works

1. Browse & Add to Cart

Shop our weekly selection of fresh produce, local meat, dairy, and pantry items.
What you see online reflects what’s moving through the hub right now.

2. Place Your Order

Checkout online anytime before the weekly cutoff:
👉 Sunday at 7:00 PM

You’ll receive a confirmation once your order is placed.

3. We Pack Your Order

Our team hand-picks and packs your order at the hub using the freshest available product.
Some items may vary slightly depending on availability — that’s the nature of working with real, local food.

4. Delivery or Shop In Person

• 🚚 Delivery — We deliver to your area on scheduled days - either Wednesday or Thursday.
• 🛍 Come shop in person — Visit us at 13145 Lundy’s Lane

5. Enjoy Real Food

Your order is ready for your table — fresh, local, and part of a system that supports farmers and your community.

🌱 A Few Things to Know

• We work with real food — availability can change week to week
• Some produce may be “seconds” (cosmetic imperfections, same great quality)
• Substitutions may happen when needed — always equal or better value

About 13 years ago, I stopped bringing bread into my house.

My youngest son was three at the time, and I had been learning about the connection between food and behaviour. Like a lot of parents, I was trying to figure out what was helping and what wasn’t. So I decided to do an elimination diet, and the first thing I removed was wheat.

The change was dramatic.

Every child is different, and every family has their own experience, but it was enough to completely change the way I looked at food. It made me realize that what we eat affects far more than just our waistline.

Have I eaten bread since then? Of course. But I never went back to making conventional bread a staple in our home. For a while I chose sprouted grain products, and these days we’re making an effort to offer alternatives at the hub for people who are looking for simpler ingredients and more traditional foods.

That’s why you’ll find sourdough from Culture & Crumb, made with organic ingredients and traditional fermentation. You’ll also find organic flour tortillas made with tallow and simple ingredients you can actually recognize.

One of the things that interests me about sourdough is the fermentation process. For generations, people prepared grains this way before commercial baking became the norm. Many people find it easier to digest, and many believe it supports better gut health than highly processed breads.

Over the years, I’ve also spent a lot of time learning about the gut, digestion, and things like candida and yeast balance. Whether you agree with every theory out there or not, most people can agree on one thing: when we eat less processed food and more real food, we generally feel better.

The older I get, the less interested I am in counting calories and the more interested I am in asking a simple question:

What is this food made of?

The Local Challenge isn’t about perfection. It’s about paying attention. It’s about choosing real food more often, supporting local producers, and making small changes that add up over time.

Because sometimes one simple change can change a lot more than you expected.

Local Finds

A rotating mix of local, small-batch, and hard-to-find products we believe in.

The Paper Bag Realization

There was a day when I drove to pick up paper produce bags.

Nothing exciting. Just another item on a list of a hundred other things that needed to get done. I picked them up, brought them back, and moved on to the next problem.

A couple weeks later max, when the old stack ran out, someone told me we didn’t have any.

I said, “I already got them.”

Their response wasn’t, “Let’s figure out where they went.”

It wasn’t, “Maybe they’re in storage.”

It wasn’t even, “If you say you got them, let’s have another look.”

It was simply that they weren’t there.

So I got back in my vehicle and bought another stack.

For a long time, I couldn’t explain why moments like that bothered me so much. After all, nobody had yelled at me. Nobody had technically done anything wrong. If I ever tried to explain it, the response was usually the same.

“Just get over it.”

“Don’t let people bother you.”

“They’re not worth your energy.”

But here’s what I’ve finally realized.

It’s not one moment.

It’s thousands.

And I think part of the problem is the world we live in today.

We’ve become so used to people being careless with the truth that we’ve learned not to trust what anyone says. People say they did something when they didn’t. They say they checked when they never looked. They promise things they never intended to follow through on.

So skepticism has become normal.

The problem is that eventually someone comes along who actually means what they say.

Someone who really did make the trip.

Someone who really did check.

Someone who really is telling you the truth.

And instead of recognizing the difference, we treat them exactly the same as everyone else.

That’s the part I struggle with.

Trust isn’t supposed to be given blindly. It’s supposed to be earned. And once someone has earned it, why wouldn’t you extend it to them?

If someone tells me they already picked something up, my first instinct isn’t to doubt them. My instinct is to believe them and start looking harder.

Because if they’ve shown me over and over that their word means something, why would I assume they’re making it up?

That tiny difference changes everything.

It saves time.

It builds trust.

It makes people feel seen instead of questioned.

And the opposite has a cost.

Not because anyone is intentionally trying to make your life difficult, but because nobody feels responsible for making it easier.

That’s the part that’s so hard to explain.

I’ve spent months wondering why I felt so exhausted by interactions that looked completely ordinary from the outside.

Now I know.

It wasn’t the paper bags.

It was the constant feeling that I was carrying the responsibility of solving problems while simultaneously defending the fact that I’d already done my part. And I shouldn't have to do yours too.

When you live in that environment long enough, you start wondering if you’re the problem.

You start questioning your own memory.

Your own judgment.

Your own expectations.

I’ve been told more than once that I expect too much from people.

Maybe I do.

But I don’t think expecting people to recognize earned trust is asking too much.

I don’t think looking one shelf farther before assuming someone else is wrong is asking too much.

I don’t think choosing trust when someone has consistently given you every reason to trust them is asking too much.

Lately, I’ve been working very hard on not carrying all of that with me.

Not because it wasn’t real.

Not because it didn’t happen.

But because I refuse to let someone else’s inability to recognize trust become the weight that slows me down.

For the first time, I can actually describe what I’ve been experiencing.

And strangely enough, that understanding is incredibly validating.

I wasn’t imagining it.

I just finally found the words.

The full moon is coming, and many people who follow traditional wellness practices use this time for a parasite cleanse.

For generations, it has been believed that parasites become more active around the full moon, which is why herbs such as wormwood, black walnut, and clove are often taken during this period. Many people feel this is the ideal time to support the body’s natural ability to eliminate unwanted organisms and restore balance to the digestive system.

Parasites are more common than most people realize. They can be picked up through food, water, pets, travel, gardening, and everyday contact with the world around us. While our bodies are designed to handle a lot, many people choose to do periodic cleanses as part of their overall wellness routine.

Wormwood has been used for centuries in traditional herbal practices and remains one of the most widely used herbs in parasite cleansing protocols today.

Whether you’re planning a cleanse or simply paying more attention to your health, the full moon is a good reminder that what happens inside our bodies matters just as much as what happens around us.

Looking to try something different?

We’re looking for people to help sort our produce.

A lot of what comes through here would normally get thrown out. We go through it, save what’s still good, and put it back out into the community at prices people can actually afford.

It’s hands-on, it matters, and you see the impact right away.

If you’ve been wanting to be part of something real, this is a good place to start.

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