Wild Oats Community Farmers' Market

27/05/2026

Fresh, organic carrots, showing off their colourful bloom at Wild Oats!

27/05/2026

KayDee's Patisserie has launched a few new & exciting specialities. Wild Oats is proud to host these unusual, individually hand-crafted delicacies from our newest team member, French trained Kristen Hack.

24/05/2026

Tell me how you handle criticism that tries to shrink you…

Someone sent me a message saying that women don't belong on row crop operations, that my posts are an insult to real farmers, and that I should find a husband and let him handle it. I am going to tell you what I did with this message. I read it once. I considered, briefly, whether it said anything I hadn't already heard internally in my hardest moments and addressed. It did not. I forwarded it to my neighbor — the 74-year-old one who asked me for cover crop advice — with no comment. He replied: "Delete it and go fix something." I deleted it. I went and fixed the gate latch that has been sticking since Tuesday. The gate works. The message is gone. I am 24. I am single. I farm 200 acres alone. The message was incorrect. The gate is correct. I know which one to spend my afternoon on. 💪🏽🌾

Tell me how you handle criticism that tries to shrink you 🌅

21/05/2026

Saturday morning at Wild Oats is the time & place to meet again.💛

21/05/2026

The long, slow journey of repair from the wild storms that so many of us are facing!!! A step at a time...

16/05/2026

Was this “regulatory blind spot” only just discovered?

“A single exposure to a toxic agricultural fungicide during pregnancy can echo through 20 generations — with inherited disease risks from kidney disease to infertility not fading, but worsening over time, according to groundbreaking research published Tuesday.

The study, which appeared in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, tracked rats whose ancestors were exposed in the womb to vinclozolin, a fungicide once widely sprayed on turf grass and fruits and vegetables such as strawberries, raspberries, lettuce, and grapes, including wine grapes. Researchers found that chemical changes that regulate how genes are switched on or off in developing embryos and throughout life — known as epigenetics, or ‘epimutations’ — remained altered in s***m 23 generations later.

Later generations showed more severe disease, declining fertility, and lethal birth complications than earlier ones. In some generations, mothers and entire litters died during childbirth. Just as striking, researchers also found a small number of rare DNA mutations.”

The study also underscores a regulatory blind spot, since traditional toxicology focuses on direct toxicity and genetic mutations 👇
https://organicconsumers.org/one-exposure-twenty-generations-later-the-damage-is-still-unfolding/

14/05/2026

Support our local community farmers & food producers this Saturday…
We all have had a tough week of wind, rain, zero electricity, no internet or cell reception & massive repair work… so please do join us over a healthy breakfast & a bit of healthy shopping to reclaim our energies!🎶🤪💛