On the Farm

Welcome to the farm

South Ridge Farm is a permaculture farm on Salt Spring Island, BC, Canada. We craft herbal teas, cookies, cakes, and crackers made with farm produce.  Wild salad mix and assorted vegetables also grace our stand at the Salt Spring Island Saturday Market and the Tuesday Market in the Park.  

We practice organic and permaculture growing methods, such as layering cardboard, vegetable compost, prunings, spoiled hay and shredded paper from our office.  We rake our broad-leaf maple leaves for mulches in the autumn.  During the summer, we use our stored rainwater and our custom engineered septic system water for irrigation. 

Less than seven years ago, our gardens were unnavigable thickets of blackberry sprinkled with poplars and comprised fir trees.  Now nut, plum, apple and pear trees take their places amongst the gooseberries, raspberries, currants, strawberries, blueberries, wild salal, thimbleberries, salmon berries, wild raspberries, wild currants, saskatoon berries, and native trailing blackberries.

To produce our baked goods such as cookies, cakes and crackers, we grind local spelt, wheat and barley grain by bicycle as we need it which allows us to bake with fresh flour and get a great work out at the same time!

Come visit South Ridge Farm in the Saturday and Tuesday Markets on Salt Spring Island!