NAture’s route farm
Point de bute
Owner: Kent Coates
History
Kent has always wanted to live and work on a farm and gave up an engineering career in 2006 to pursue this dream full time. He grows a wide variety of great tasting vegetables on his beautiful farm overlooking the New Brunswick / Nova Scotia border. Kent and Ruth Coates started Nature’s Route Farm in 2007 with three sheep some laying hens, 1.2 acres of mix vegetables a young family and no staff. The farm grew and grew, the chickens were the first major product to be dropped and we sold our flock of 150 sheep in 2014 to focus more on vegetables. Kent took over the farm in 2015, certified organic in 2016 and has been growing the business ever since. The farm started off selling through a Community Supported Agriculture model as well as farmers’ markets and has evolved to selling at farmers’ markets, wholesale and through their own website: https://www.naturesroutefarm.ca/en/ . We offer seasonal produce all year long! From spinach, cucumbers, tomatoes, broccoli and peppers during the growing season to a year round offering of carrots, potatoes, beets, rutabaga and parsnips.
Description
Growing mixed organic vegetables is challenging and Kent is grateful to have such great workers, clients and a supporting community. The farm team consists of a mix of local farm staff and managers as well as four Seasonal Agriculture Workers from Mexico. The farm has approximately 70 acres of organic production and are growing more than 20 acres of organic vegetables with a crew of only seven hard working staff plus Kent.
Dedicated staff, better crop rotations, mechanization of weed management, outstanding farmers’ markets and committed clients all make this possible.
Calendar
Year Round! We sometimes work with farming friends to supplement our own vegetables at farmers’ markets and certified organic locally grown vegetables all year round.
Where sold
Dieppe Express Market Friday, all year long
Dieppe Market every Saturday, all year long
Sackville Farmers’ Market every Saturday, all year long
Moncton Market Saturday, all year long
Stirlings Farm Market (Moncton)
Dolma (Moncton)
Warehouse Market (Halifax)
Farmacy and Fermentary (Charlettown)
Events
Visitors welcomed
Our products
Green Beans
Beets
Broccoli
Cabbage
Carrots
Cucumbers
Kale
Kohlrabi
Lettuce
Onions
Green Onions
Parsnips
Peppers
Potatoes
Rutabaga
Swiss chard
Tomatoes
Zuchinni