Aug 18th, 2026

Leslie’s got an abundance of heritage pork sausage that needs to move, so we put together an incredible sausage bundle. As a bonus, she’s throwing in broth bones absolutely free so nothing goes to waste. It’s a great deal, and a great way to stock your freezer. 
This is the lowest price we've ever offered sausages from Comfort Farms.

Our pick-and-pack section is the most affordable way to feed your family.
Come by and fill a half-bushel basket with whatever you'd like from this section, for just $30 - and it helps us keep food moving so nothing goes to waste and prices stay reasonable. Win win.

We have great deals on now at The Hub, while quantities last. 

Plus we have freezers full and our meat sampler bags fully stocked, so you can come try our meat and taste the difference for yourself.

We are open to the public Monday and Tuesday 9-4pm, Wed - Friday 9–5, Saturday 9–4, and Sunday 10–4 - 13145 Lundy's Lane

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Our tomatoes and pickling cucumbers have arrived at our HUB! 

Half bushels now available.

Pickling Cucumbers: $35 half bushel

Roma Tomatoes $25 a half bushel

Pearl Onions: $5 a basket

Real food, made easy. Add veggies to your order and we’ll bring it straight to your door.

Check out our vegetable section for free delivery.👇

Start your morning with real food.

Comfort Farms Pork Sausage Patties are made from premium Ontario-raised pork and lightly seasoned to let the quality of the meat shine. They're perfect for breakfast sandwiches, a traditional farmhouse breakfast, or alongside eggs and pancakes.

Raised without antibiotics or added hormones, these patties are made with simple ingredients and are frozen for freshness, making them easy to keep on hand for a quick, hearty meal.

A freezer staple you'll reach for again and again.

Locally made mushroom blend designed to support energy, focus, and overall wellness — an easy way to add functional mushrooms into your daily routine.

The Small Scale Farms Ecosystem

Small Scale Farms is becoming an ecosystem built around a simple idea:

We already have more resources around us than we realize. The challenge is connecting people, food, knowledge, work, community investment and resources in better ways.

Each part has a different job, but they’re designed to work together.

FOOD HUB

Keeps food moving.

The Food Hub creates another pathway between farmers, producers, suppliers and households. It’s where local food can be sold, surplus redirected and rescued food made accessible outside the conventional grocery system.

The bigger vision isn’t one giant centralized operation. Food Hubs could eventually exist in other communities as independently owned, locally operated hubs connected through the larger ecosystem — creating both local food infrastructure and opportunities for entrepreneurship.

FOOD RESCUE

Captures food value before it’s lost.

Perishable food has an incredibly short window. Something can be worth full price one day and considered waste shortly afterward — even though it’s still perfectly usable food.

Food Rescue creates another option: redirect it, drastically reduce the price and find a productive use for what can no longer be sold.

Good food shouldn’t become garbage simply because the traditional system has run out of time to sell it.

RED MAPLE FARM SCHOOL

Builds knowledge and practical skills.

Access to resources is one part of resilience. Knowing what to do with them is another.

Red Maple Farm School teaches hands-on skills like growing and preserving food, working with animals, understanding bees, medicinal plants and homesteading.

You can buy food. You can learn. You can volunteer. You can participate. And eventually, you can help build.

Resilience isn’t only about what you can afford to buy. It’s about what you know how to do.

FARM CREDITS

Turns participation into purchasing power.

Farm Credits recognize that money isn’t the only thing people have to contribute.

People can contribute time, complete meaningful work and participate in programs to earn credits that circulate back toward food, education and other resources.

Time → Contribution → Farm Credits → Food, Skills & Resources

GIVE TO GROW

Turns everyday purchasing into community support.

Instead of another traditional fundraiser, Give to Grow allows people to purchase things they already need while directing a portion of that economic activity back toward their school, team or community organization.

People need groceries anyway. Why not make those dollars do more?

THE VOUCHER PROGRAM

Turns corporate and community dollars directly into food.

Businesses can purchase food vouchers for employees. Corporations can direct vouchers to charities, schools or community organizations. Individuals can buy one for a neighbour, and businesses can contribute directly to our Voucher Wall.

A $30 voucher can become a $30 Pick & Pack basket — and the person receiving it chooses their own food from the same Food Hub as everyone else.

It creates dignity and choice while also supporting the farmers, producers and infrastructure behind the food.

One dollar can do more than one job: support a person, support a farmer and support a local food system.

THE RESILIENCE NETWORK

Turns customers into participants.

The Resilience Network will be the membership and community layer of the ecosystem — giving people opportunities to learn practical skills, participate in workshops and farm experiences, receive ongoing guidance and contribute their time.

It’s about moving beyond simply buying what you need toward becoming more capable and involved in the community around you.

FRIENDLY NEIGHBOURS

Connects people to the neighbourhood around them.

Friendly Neighbours will bring the ecosystem down to the neighbourhood level — helping people understand who and what is around them, what resources exist and how they can participate.

Neighbourhoods can connect through local initiatives, participate in Give to Grow and have a greater voice in where community resources go.

Stronger communities begin with connected neighbours.

REBORN COLLECTIVE

Creates shared ownership in what we’re building.

Reborn Collective will be the mother company and larger ownership structure behind the ecosystem.

The bigger idea is to create an opportunity for people to potentially buy shares and move from:

Customer → Participant → Contributor → Owner

We constantly talk about buying local and supporting local.

But what if people could own local too?

Food Hubs can remain independently owned. Individual programs can have their own structures. But Reborn Collective will connect the larger vision and creates a pathway toward community ownership.

Instead of value continually leaving the communities that create it, the goal is to help more of that value circulate locally and eventually be owned locally.

One Ecosystem

Put it all together:

Food Hub — Keeps food moving.

Food Rescue — Captures food value before it’s lost.

Red Maple Farm School — Builds practical skills.

Farm Credits — Turns participation into purchasing power.

Give to Grow — Turns everyday spending into community support.

Voucher Program — Turns community and corporate dollars into food.

Resilience Network — Turns customers into participants.

Friendly Neighbours — Connects neighbourhoods.

Reborn Collective — Creates a pathway to shared ownership.

These aren’t separate programs competing for attention.

They’re different parts of the same system.

Food moves through it. Knowledge moves through it. People move through it. Money and resources move through it. Value moves through it. And eventually, ownership can move through it too.

That gives people many different ways to participate:

Shop here. Learn a skill. Rescue food. Contribute your time. Earn Farm Credits. Support your school through Give to Grow. Buy someone a food voucher. Connect your neighbourhood. Operate a Food Hub. Invest in what we’re building.

Different people have different things to contribute — money, time, knowledge, purchasing power, relationships, property, business experience or simply participation.

The ecosystem gives those contributions somewhere to go.

We’re building more ways for people to access what they need, contribute what they have, keep food and resources circulating locally and eventually own a piece of the systems their communities depend on.

We’re not trying to build another version of the system that already exists.

We’re building another way through it — and giving the community a place inside of it.

Grow. Rebuild. Regenerate.

A few weeks ago, I wrote about a pie graph I had been building around poverty in Ontario.

The reason I started doing it was simple: I felt like we weren’t actually seeing the real numbers anymore.

So I started digging into the statistics myself.

How many people are on social assistance?  How many are on EI?  How many are working part time?  How many are considered “working poor”?  How many people are technically employed but still struggling to survive?

I wanted to understand the actual economic makeup of the province - not politically, not emotionally, but mathematically.

And before I even touched what we traditionally call the “middle class,” I had already landed at nearly 50% of the population living in poverty, near-poverty, or economically fragile conditions.

But after sitting with it longer, I realized I had left something major out of the equation:

The middle class.

And honestly, I shouldn’t have.

Because the more I thought about it, the more I started realizing that the middle class may actually be in deeper danger than many people officially categorized as “poor.”

Not because they necessarily make less money.  But because they have more debt.

Massive debt.

Mortgages. Lines of credit. Car payments. Credit cards. HELOCs, (home equity line of credit). Consumer financing. “Affordable” monthly payments stretched over years.

For decades, credit created the illusion of stability. It allowed people to maintain a middle-class appearance long after real purchasing power began collapsing. And now the cracks are starting to show.

A recent federal report stated that nearly 50% of Canadians belong to the middle class. But that definition becomes increasingly disconnected from reality when you compare incomes against modern housing costs, food inflation, insurance, fuel, taxes, and debt servicing.

Statistics Canada data shows Ontario’s median household income sits around $91,000 before tax. On paper, that sounds solid. Years ago, that would have represented stability. Today, in many parts of Ontario, that income barely sustains a mortgage, groceries, utilities, transportation, childcare, and debt repayments.

Meanwhile, what’s considered “middle class” in Canada is often defined as households earning roughly between $57,000 and $115,000 annually.

But here’s the uncomfortable truth nobody wants to say out loud:
A household can technically be “middle class” while being one missed paycheck away from collapse.

That isn’t stability. That’s leveraged survival.

And we’re starting to see the cultural indicators everywhere.

Travel is one of the clearest examples because vacations are often the first thing families cut when economic pressure rises. Recent reporting shows Canadian travel demand continues to weaken significantly. Statistics Canada reported Canadian return trips from the U.S. fell again in early 2026, continuing a long downward trend. Other reporting found Canadian visits to U.S. metropolitan areas dropped as much as 42% year-over-year.

At the same time, surveys show many Canadians are avoiding travel altogether because they simply cannot justify the expense anymore. 

That matters because the middle class has historically been the economic engine of discretionary spending.

When the middle class stops traveling, stops renovating, stops eating out, stops supporting local businesses, and starts pulling back in fear, the ripple effects move through the entire economy.

And I think that’s the stage we’re entering now.

What concerns me most is that many people still believe poverty looks like homelessness or visible desperation. But modern poverty often looks very different.

It looks like families carrying enormous debt while appearing “fine.” Two-income households unable to get ahead. People avoiding grocery stores because prices trigger anxiety. Parents quietly skipping meals. Adults with decent jobs unable to buy homes. Households financing basic necessities. People one interest-rate increase away from disaster.

In many ways, the middle class became the buffer zone holding the entire economic structure together. And if that buffer collapses, society changes very quickly — not just economically, but socially, psychologically, and politically.

Because once people realize they followed all the rules and still can’t build security, trust in the system starts to erode.

That’s why I keep coming back to local systems. Local food. Local production. Local relationships. Local resilience.

Because the larger the systems become, the more fragile ordinary people become inside them.

And maybe that’s the real story unfolding beneath the headlines right now: not simply that poverty is growing, but that the line between “middle class” and “poverty” is disappearing altogether.

Locally yours, 
Small Scale Farms

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