This Pint Has 20 Ounces

Our guest on the show this week is Ben Collins of Uprooted Farm. Along with the help of his partner Kait, Ben takes a craft approach to farming, growing food that they’d want to eat, with flavours that take you to times in your life like pulling a carrot out of your grandma’s garden. Over the past four growing seasons Uprooted Farm has expanded to roughly 2/3rds of an acre, filling a niche that Ben refers to as a “market garden.” He’s certainly no stranger to the Wild Rose Taproom, with Uprooted taking part in previous farmer’s market events and selling some of the freshest produce you can find outside your own garden. Nick recalls a story of asking Ben how long it would take to set up for the farmer’s market at the Taproom and learning that the vegetables Ben would be selling hadn’t even been picked yet! As it turns out the wait between him pulling the produce from the ground and someone enjoying it can be as short as just 10 hours. In addition to (or perhaps because of!) Ben’s work on the farm he is also a