About Flying Moon Farm
The Place That Roots Us
We’re a women-run, queer positive, daughter-mother duo exploring regenerative food systems and ways to compost the conditioning of empire (in addition to actually composting a lot of shit).
Everything we do and offer is born from our relationship with a place filled with stories.
A Forest Farm in the Ottawa Valley
The rocks and trees hold them. The coyote, fox, deer, bear, rabbits, raccoons, snakes, and frogs carry them through the seasons.
Ravens, blue jays, and crows call them across the forest canopy. Dragonflies skim the wetlands in summer light. The giant oak tree stands witness. Maples, cedar, and dancing aspen move with the wind.
Learning To Farm Challenging Land
Flying Moon Farm sits within a largely untouched 700+ acre forest and wetland ecosystem in the Ottawa Valley, rich with biodiversity and layered with life. It is also challenging land.
The Ottawa Valley is known for its extremes: long winters, deep snow, humid summers, 20 degree temperature swings in 24 hours, and soil that is often more rock or sand than fertile ground. Farming here requires patience, creativity, and a willingness to work with the land rather than force it to behave.
Flying Moon Farm begins -again and again- with learning how to listen to this place. A humbling and profound challenge for settler, city-raised folk.
An Ecology of Being
The Territory of the Omàmìwininì and Wendat Peoples
The farm is located on the unceded, unsurrendered territory of the Omàmìwininì (“downriver people”) and Wendat (“people of the island”) Peoples, whose presence and relationship with this land reaches back to time immemorial.
This place holds the wisdom of those relationships. It also holds the sorrow of colonization and the ongoing work of Indigenous communities seeking justice and renewed Treaty relationships with the Crown and settlers of present-day greater Ottawa.
In this context, our daily work is informed by learning the true history of this place, how we can grow as allies in Indigenous sovereignty and become good treaty people.
Learning Regenerative Farming from the Animals and Land
Trying to nurture a regenerative local food system is new to us. Our journey into farming is new to us, although many of our more recent ancestors knew a lot about sewing, preserving, tending to gardens and making a little go a long way.
We came to farming following the call of the horses.
What began as caring for them slowly turned into something more. Each day we gathered the roughly 300 pounds of manure the herd leaves behind and began composting it into soil. The sheep joined us soon after, offering wool and even more manure to enrich the gardens.
From Horses to Hugelkultur: Building Soil and Gardens
We experimented with building hugelkultur raised beds, using piles of old tin and scrap materials left behind by previous owners. Five beds became eight. Eight became fourteen. Today we are tending more than thirty and still learning what the land will support.
As the horses deepened their relationship with the pastures, they began to reveal their skills as master foragers. Wild herbs and resilient plants began to appear across the fields. Indigenous friends shared knowledge about harvesting cedar and pine from the forest and recognizing the medicine that migrates around a place.
Slowly, a pattern emerged.
By spending several hours each day with the animals and land—watching, listening, tending—we began to understand something simple and profound: the farm is not something we control. It is something we participate in.
Nothing stays the same here.
Soil rebuilds itself slowly. Plants move and adapt. Animals teach us what the land needs. The forest shifts as seasons turn.
Like the trees around us, we are both rooted and always in slow and steady motion.
What Visiting the Farm Means
Nourishment and Learning Through the Seasons
When you visit Flying Moon Farm for the farm stand, a gathering or a workshop, you’re not stepping into a perfectly curated farm attraction.
You’re stepping into a living ecosystem.
Some days the sheep are grazing quietly while the wind moves through the forest canopy. On other days the horses are showing us which plants thrive in their pasture. The gardens might be overflowing with herbs and vegetables, or resting quietly beneath mulch while the soil rebuilds itself.
What we offer here are invitations into relationship.
Sometimes that looks like learning to felt wool while the sheep who grew it graze nearby. Sometimes it’s planting herbs for a tea garden, cooking together beside the pasture, or spending an afternoon exploring what tending land and animals actually involves.
In the fall it may mean harvesting the last of the garden and preparing beds for winter.
The common thread is simple: slowing down enough to notice the connections that sustain life.
The soil feeds the plants.
The plants feed the animals.
The animals feed the soil.
And we are part of that cycle too.
Reconnecting with Land, Animals, and Community
You don’t need to arrive here as a farmer, gardener, or fibre artist. You only need curiosity—and a willingness to step into the rhythms of a place that is alive.
Many people stop for honey or tea at our farm stand and tell us we are living their dream. But what they often discover is something deeper. The dream was never really about leaving the city or owning land. It was about remembering how to belong to the living world again.
And that kind of remembering can begin anywhere.
What You’ll Find
Flying Moon Farm offers a farm stand, hands-on workshops, seasonal gatherings, and regenerative farm experiences in the Ottawa Valley, just outside Carleton Place near Beckwith.
Visitors come for accessible, organic vegetables, our honey or join us for fibre workshops with our sheep, herb and garden gatherings, seasonal harvest experiences, and evenings of shared food beside the pasture and forest.
Each experience is shaped by the season, the animals, and the living rhythms of the land.
A farm is never static—and that’s exactly where the learning begins.
Flying Moon Farm is located in Beckwith Township in the Ottawa Valley, about 10 minutes from Carleton Place and within easy reach of Ottawa and Almonte