Devon Acres Organic Farm in Brantford, Ontario

Devon Acres Farm is a small farm near the south bank of the Grand River in Brant County, just west of Brantford and southeast of Paris. We are the Kirbys; Marie, Robin, Maggie and Aerron and the kids, with a lot of help from CSA working share members and from volunteers. We also have a lot of help from Robin and Marie’s daughters Trisha and Heather and their families too. We grow nearly three acres of organic vegetables, pasture chickens, ducks, turkeys, sheep, cows and three Belgian workhorses. We are adapting our farm to Agroforestry techniques meaning that trees and shrubs are grown throughout and alongside farmed areas to increase diversity for us farmers and to encourage greater diversity of plants and animals species. We are planting fruit trees, berry bushes, various shrubs and many different species of native trees. This is a very long term project that will take years. We need to purchase and plant many plants each fall and spring. The planting, and the care required to keep them growing, especially in the first year or two, requires a lot of effort.