Feast IN THE Woods

One can’t talk about Canada’s, particularly Ontario’s, farm-to-table scene without mentioning Michael Stadtländer, his wife, Nobuyo, and Eigensinn Farm. Celebrating his farm’s 25th anniversary this year, Stadtländer seems no less inspired and excited about the future as he recalls the recent past.

“I feel very lucky and privileged that I can do this, that it’s actually still in big demand,” Stadtländer says from his farm in Singhampton, Ontario, near Collingwood. “Sometimes when you become well established, you kind of slowly fade out, but that kind of feeling is not happening here at all. Last year, we could have had two Eigensinn Farms, we had such high demand. I’m really happy about that. And still having this connection with younger people, the idea of them experiencing the raising and growing and cooking and building, that’s what I’m always looking forward to, as well.”

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