Caritas Abundat Artisan Soap Shop

Caritas Abundat Artisan Soap Shop From our little pine forest, we craft homestead goods with simple beauty and love, inspired by St. Hildegard’s antiphon Caritas Abundat (‘Love Abounds’).

Fresh from the garden and out at the stand this morning!Colourful cherry tomatoes, jalapeños, and a few other garden off...
08/29/2026

Fresh from the garden and out at the stand this morning!

Colourful cherry tomatoes, jalapeños, and a few other garden offerings tucked onto the shelves including our Sweet Basil and Cinnamon Basil Finishing Salts, and an assortment of flowers for Build Your Own Bouquets.

Nothing is sprayed on our produce or garden beds - grown only with what the good soil and weather give us.

Grown nearby. Gathered nearby. Shared nearby.

📍 Boundary Rd & Concession 7, Alfred
🌿 Open today until 8 pm
🌿 Closed Sundays

Caritas Abundat 💛

08/28/2026

A Pinch of Summer. 🍅🌿

Our Basil Finishing Salts are made in small batches using fresh basil harvested from our garden, blended with sea salt and slowly dried.

Choose from Sweet Basil for a classic garden flavour, or Cinnamon Basil for a warm, subtly spiced twist.

Perfect on tomatoes, fresh mozzarella, roasted vegetables, potatoes, eggs, grilled meats, or warm buttered bread.

Available at our little roadside stand, tomorrow!

Which would you choose: Sweet Basil or Cinnamon Basil? 🌿

Caritas Abundat 💛

08/22/2026

Another little note in our guest book today. ❤️

It is difficult to put into words just how encouraging these small messages are to us.

There is something so lovely about coming out to the stand and discovering that someone stopped by, found something they were happy to bring home, and took a moment to leave us a few words before they went.

"Super excited to see you have fresh eggs..." 🖋

Today, it was someone excited to find fresh eggs who took two dozen and left us a sweet note. 🥚

Our stand is small, but moments like this make it feel like something more than a place to set out vegetables, flowers, eggs, and things we've made. It's a little point of connection with the people around us.

Thank you to everyone who stops by, and especially to those who leave a little note behind. We truly love finding them.

Caritas Abundat 💛 🩵🤎💚🤍

🥚 Fresh Free-Range Eggs at the stand tomorrow!Our hens have been giving us the prettiest little rainbow of eggs! Shades ...
08/20/2026

🥚 Fresh Free-Range Eggs at the stand tomorrow!

Our hens have been giving us the prettiest little rainbow of eggs! Shades of blue, green, cream and brown, all naturally laid by our free-range flock. 🌈🥚

$5/dozen

📍 Boundary Rd & Concession 7, Alfred
🌿 Friday • Saturday
9 am – 8 pm

Caritas Abundat 💛

Gathered nearby. Made nearby. Shared nearby.

The Legend of Espérance...We thought we'd lost one of our Olive Egger hens.For a while, she'd stopped coming into the co...
08/17/2026

The Legend of Espérance...

We thought we'd lost one of our Olive Egger hens.

For a while, she'd stopped coming into the coop at night. Instead, she'd disappear somewhere into the woods, occasionally turning up in the morning for a quick drink before hurrying off again.

Then she stopped coming back altogether and we feared the worst.

Until the other day, when an Olive Egger suddenly appeared out of the woods...

with ELEVEN chicks behind her. 😂🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥🐥

We counted the flock, and sure enough, it was our missing girl.

Apparently, while we were mourning her disappearance, she had commandeered an illicit communal nest, established a secret woodland maternity ward, and spent nearly a month sitting on an assortment of eggs that several of our other hens had apparently been sneaking into the woods to contribute. 😂

And what an assortment! We now have eleven tiny chicks in all sorts of colours.

Somehow this determined little hen spent night after night hidden and defenseless in the woods, kept her clutch warm and safe from all manner of woodland predators, hatched eleven babies, and then simply marched the entire family back home to the coop as though this had all been arranged in advance.

We thought she was gone but she was simply out there, brave and busy.

“Hello. I'm back. These are my eleven children.” 😂

And after a return like that, she needed a name.

Meet Espérance!

We thought she'd been eaten. Then one day she walked out of the woods with eleven new little lives following behind her.


🌧️ Today's rain is a little too generous for our roadside stand, but the garden is having a long drink.Between the stead...
07/28/2026

🌧️ Today's rain is a little too generous for our roadside stand, but the garden is having a long drink.

Between the steady downpour and the weather advisory, we've decided to let the rain have the day rather than leave everything out in the weather.

The stand will remain closed today, but we'll be back as soon as the skies are kinder.

Thank you for understanding.

Caritas Abundat 💛

🌿 Fresh from today's harvest.One of the greatest joys of a homestead is sharing these moments together. Little hands hel...
07/27/2026

🌿 Fresh from today's harvest.

One of the greatest joys of a homestead is sharing these moments together. Little hands helped harvest some of the first carrots of the season this morning, and set them out at the stand.

Fresh harvest includes:

🥕 Garden Carrots – Sweet, crisp, and freshly harvested. We especially love them mashed together with fresh turnips for a simple, comforting side dish.

🟣 Garden Turnips – Delicious roasted, mashed, in soups, or pickled. (The greens are edible too!)

🥒 Garden Zucchini – Tender and freshly picked. Wonderful grilled, roasted, sautéed, baked, or added to soups.

🌱 Grown in healthy, living soil using natural gardening practices, compost, and careful hand tending. We never use herbicides, and we don't use synthetic pesticides.

Thank you for supporting our little homestead and sharing in this season's harvest. Every visit means so much to our family.

Caritas Abundat 💛

🌸 Fresh Garden Bouquets are at the stand today.Gathered by hand from this week's blooms at Caritas Abundat, each bouquet...
07/25/2026

🌸 Fresh Garden Bouquets are at the stand today.

Gathered by hand from this week's blooms at Caritas Abundat, each bouquet is one of a kind.

This week's bouquets include a beautiful mix of snapdragons, zinnias, echinacea, Queen Anne's lace, feverfew, yarrow, lavender, flowering oregano, flowering basil, and other cottage garden flowers and herbs.

Available in a variety of sizes while they last.

📍 Corner of Boundary Road & Concession 7, Alfred
🕘 Self-serve • 9:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m. (Closed Sundays)

We hope they bring a little beauty to your home. ~ Caritas Abundat 💛

🌸 Nos bouquets du jardin sont au kiosque aujourd'hui!

Cueillis à la main dans les jardins de Caritas Abundat, chacun de nos bouquets est unique et met en valeur les fleurs de la saison.

Cette semaine, vous y trouverez un mélange de mufliers, zinnias, échinacées, dentelle de la Reine-Anne, achillée millefeuille, grande camomille (feverfew), lavande, origan en fleurs, basilic en fleurs et d'autres fleurs et herbes de nos jardins.

Disponibles en plusieurs formats, jusqu'à épuisement des stocks.

📍 Chemin Boundary et concession 7, Alfred
🕘 Libre-service • 9 h à 20 h (fermé le dimanche)

Nous espérons que ces bouquets apporteront un peu de beauté dans votre foyer. ~ Caritas Abundat 💛

🇨🇦 Happy Canada Day | Bonne fête du Canada! Not every Canada Day is filled with sunshine, backyard barbecues, and firewo...
07/01/2026

🇨🇦 Happy Canada Day | Bonne fête du Canada!

Not every Canada Day is filled with sunshine, backyard barbecues, and fireworks.

Today, the rain has soaked the gardens, the wind has bent the trees, and storms have brought flooding to many parts of our region.

Days like these invite us to pause and be grateful for the simple things we sometimes take for granted: a dry home, a warm meal, and the comforting sound of rain from a place of shelter.

We hope everyone travelling today arrives home safely. To our neighbours across Eastern Ontario, especially those affected by today's storms, we're thinking of you.

Wishing you a peaceful and safe Canada Day, and brighter skies tomorrow. ❤️🤍🇨🇦

Caritas Abundat 💛

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Alfred, ON

Opening Hours

Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm

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+13439612476

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