Farmer Market Peterborough Ontario Tour & more
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00:00Hello, everyone. Today, the Peter Berto Mario Center in Peter Berto, Ontario, for the Peter
00:08Berto Peets play. And they go to the school Thomas A. Stewart, where I went to. I graduated
00:13in 1988, or maybe 1989, or maybe 1990, or I'm just stupid and I don't even know the
00:19year I graduated. But this is where the Peter Berto Peets play. Busy street. Lansdowne's
00:29always been a busy street. So if you hear that and you can't hear me, I apologize.
00:34I'm stupid. I'm recording on a busy street. So as you can see, these are some of the major
00:40players here from the past. I don't know hockey at all, to be honest with you, but I do have
00:48a story for you. And that's a store in there where you can get goodies and stuff. I guess
00:54that's the store hours, Monday to Friday, closed 12 p.m. to 1 p.m. I guess that's lunchtime.
01:04And here's some other players as well from the past. Now, they all went to Thomas A.
01:08Stewart. Thomas A. Stewart was an amazing place. Like, it's one of the biggest schools.
01:16It possibly could be one of the biggest high schools in Ontario. I'm not really sure. But
01:20the story of the Peter Berto Peets, they always sat together. So how it worked back
01:26in the day was if you sat in the wrong spot and you were going to grade nine, they would
01:32pick up the whole chair and move you, and everybody would laugh. I don't know if they
01:36do that anymore, but I saw that once and it was hilarious. You cannot sit with the Peter
01:41Berto Peets. They always had to be together to be number one and do a fantastic job. And
01:47also, too, they have the Peter Berto Lakers here as well. As you can see, Peter Berto
01:53Peets. And over here, community entrance is there. And there's the Peter Berto Lakers.
02:06They play in here, too, as well. Now, this is a very old building. This was built in
02:13the 1950s. It opened around there. So they're building another one way over there. But today,
02:20I'm also showing you, and here is another place that they built, PMC Club. I don't know
02:25much about this club. Never been in here. It wasn't here when I was younger. So I have
02:30no clue. Canadian whiskey, Canadian. I don't know the history of it or nothing like that.
02:37And I should because I grew up here. But that is a club, and I know nothing about. Now,
02:42over here is where they have the farmer's market inside during the wintertime. That's
02:51the big building where they have it. You can still use washrooms in there now. And they
02:55used to have the, right here, they used to have the exhibition. The exhibition now is
03:01closed down because there's really nothing, there's really nothing going on. The Peter
03:08out. Just died out. No excitement. No nothing. Sad enough to say. But this was huge. Now,
03:17here is where the washrooms would be. You need to use the washrooms inside. Now, I'm
03:23going to go to the farmer's market over there. And this is the memorial building. And they
03:28have events in there that used to have back in the 80s, flea markets and stuff like that,
03:33too. But it's really died down over the years. Really, not really the same as it used to
03:41be. So here's the big thing here. And they have two farmer's market, one downtown at
03:49Quaker Oak Park that I'll check out some other time. And I've been there before, but they're
03:54always different with different vendors. Now, here is the Peterborough one here. And this
03:59one here is 7am to 1pm. And they've had it since 1825. If you can see that. Now, I will
04:10be back shortly as I walk around over there.
04:19Hello, sir. What's your name?
04:20I'm Ryan. Nice to meet you from Browns Farms.
04:22Browns Farms. So all this is all this here is different.
04:26Yeah, so there's four of us. This is Browns family farm. So there's four of us that run it. My wife does the flowers at the far end down there. She started when she was 14 with gladiolus on the farm. And then Dawn's father started with potatoes in 1934. And we've been growing and doing vegetables ever since in some form or shape.
04:48And where's your farm?
04:50So we're in Pawnee Pool there. And it's about 20 minutes to the west of Peterborough.
04:58So you have a you can actually go to the farm and buy stuff there as well?
05:02No, we just do the farmers markets and wholesale. We used to have a farm stand, but just got too much to run. So we, we just had to make the call just to focus on a couple things and balance it out with work life, family matters.
05:17So you just do here?
05:19Yeah, so we do Peterborough every Friday or every Saturday. And Fridays, we're at the Oshawa Center farmers markets.
05:26Some other people are there.
05:28Yeah, we're kind of a family. Yeah, we, we all know each other. It's the same farmers, producers that kind of grow and talk to each other.
05:35And you're in there during the winter?
05:37Yeah, so Don goes inside all year long. So you can find him and his potatoes and onions and carrots. 52 weeks of the year.
05:4452 weeks a year. Wow. So just Oshawa in here then?
05:48Just Oshawa in here.
05:49For now?
05:50No, that's more than enough. We do Morello's grocery store up the road here in Peterborough too. They support us fantastically.
05:57Oh, wow.
05:58Yeah, and then a little bit of wholesale to some other growers in the area. And that keeps us busy.
06:04Oh, my bad. Thank you for your time. I appreciate that.
06:17Hello there. What's your name?
06:19Amanda Edie.
06:20I'm Paul, I guess. Some people call me other things, but nasty things, but that's okay. But I'm not here for that right now. I just want to know about your farm.
06:29Sure. So it started back in this, I think it was the 60, 1964 is when we started. So this started with my grandparents, and then it went to my parents, and then it went to me and my husband, and then also my son comes. So it's four generations.
06:43Is that like 100 years?
06:45It's been a long time. Well, starting since 64.
06:47Yeah, 64.
06:48So my grandparents, they own the farm.
06:50Not quite 100 years.
06:51Yeah, and so all the fruit would come from there. But then when my parents took over, they slowly started selling it off. So now what we do is we support all of Niagara, and we go directly to the farms.
07:02Awesome.
07:03And we look for the best fruits, and we pick it up directly from their driveway at the farm. We bring it all the way up to Oshawa and Peterborough, and we sell it to the people here.
07:11Wow. So no other places you go?
07:14No, we do an Oshawa market on a Friday. So we come up in Niagara, we leave Thursday night, and then we do the Friday market. We come up here, continue on to Peterborough, we sleep over here, and then we do this market for the day, and then we go back to Niagara.
07:29Wow, so you're very busy.
07:30It's a busy, yeah, and it's all summer long, and it's every Friday.
07:33And you do it during the winter over there too?
07:35No, no. Only when fresh fruits are in season.
07:37Oh, I see.
07:38So we're more like a beginning of July to about mid-September. That's kind of our selling time.
07:44I see.
07:45But some years, this year is early. Everything came early. The heat, right?
07:48Oh, yes.
07:49So it's going to end early. That's just the way it is.
07:51Oh, absolutely. Well, thank you for your time. I appreciate that.
07:53Absolutely.