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Mrs. Wilsons Kitchen, Fire Route 311 #6, Parry Sound, ON (2026)

05/20/2022

The rhubarb is ready. $6
We pick it for you when you arrive
Call to reserve your bundle.
705 3899554

04/02/2022

Please be patient. We are under construction.
In the mean time please enjoy the discussion group.
You may click on the link just above
It’s about good and delicious homemade food, homesteading and self reliant living.

10/25/2021

Homesteads need cats.
Cats help in so many ways
They keep the mouse population down in the chicken coop.
No mice bothering the chickens makes for happy ladies.
In the garden voles and mice will eat the root vegetables.
Beets and carrots are safe with cats prowling the rows.
We have eleven cats on our homestead.
They are wild or feral when they arrived here.
After veterinarian check ups, shots, deworming and any other necessary medical attention they come here to live.
Cats are curious. After settling in we begin socializing. It’s a slow process.
A wild cat is terrified of humans.
Often they have been hurt, abandoned or abused. It takes time to win their trust.

This is a real happy story
Torty the cat lived here in the woods for two years. We would see her often.
She is a beautiful little girl.
We tried to trap her many times, but she is so smart. We could never catch her.
In bad weather she’d come to our living room window for relief under the over hang.
She’d stretch up and put her little white paws up on the window and cry.
If you could have seen this poor, wet, hungry and cold little cat crying for help your heart would break.
Trying every idea for trapping a wild cat we still were unsuccessful.
She was so scared. She’d run away as soon as we tried to help her.

Finally success.
My little granddaughter decided to take a bowl of food outside for Torty.
Maybe because she was small
Torty wasn’t afraid to approach
For the first time Torty filled up her tummy.
Bursting with joy my little granddaughter
ran in the house to tell us.
In her excitement she’d forgotten to
close the door.
It must have been that Torty thought
she had finally found a human she could trust.
Soon the little cats curiosity got the best of her
She ventured into the warm house to find her new home.
This is her. She is now completely socialized and living a happy, healthy life.

With the cold setting in we are hopeful for donations of old blankets, towels or bedding.
They will be used to insulate cat houses for the winter.

Meow and thank you.

Sometimes we find a loving family and the cats are adopted.

10/23/2021

Good Happy Rainy Saturday morning.
Facebook finally fixed our page
Up until today we have been unable to add
New posts.

We’ve been busy lately harvesting wild grapes
The grapes are ripe and ready to pick.
Wild grapes make rich and delicious wine

Wild grape jelly is a big favourite here
Spread on hot cheese biscuits.
Just perfect

05/16/2021

We have lots of fresh farm eggs for sale.

03/14/2021

Why is the freezer in the Mr Wilson truck?

You’ve purchased so many of our
homemade Dinners from
Trader Teds
We want to say Thank You by offering you
more variety of meals.
More to choose from.

We are adding a second freezer to
Teds Store

In Mrs Wilsons Kitchen
We make Home made food.
Each meal is prepared by hand one at a time

At Trader Teds
You can pick up
Meat Pies
Lasagna
Hot Hamburger Dinner
Mac and Cheese with Bacon
And lots more.

New meals to be Coming soon
Shepard’s Pie
Meatloaf Dinner.
Tuna Noodle just like Mom used to make.
Ham and Scolloped Potatoes.

All our meals are home cooked
We still use the very best ingredients.

Our meals are fully cooked
Just re-heat and serve.

If you’ve got a great idea for a meal you’d like us to prepare; let Trader Ted know.

01/19/2021

Homesteads use permaculture methods
It’s like a circle.
Everything starts, rolls around, becomes something else and goes back where it starts.

A homestead story.

Stryker that lucky cat.

“When the phone rings around here
You just never know what will happen next”

One day a few summers back we got a call from the EMS.
Odd I thought as I answered the phone.
“Hi, Mrs Wilson it’s Josh. I’m a paramedic in Parry Sound. We’ve got a problem.
There is a cat hanging around the ambulance bay. She’s very friendly but I have to find a home for her. We’re afraid she’s going to get hurt here. Some calls are so urgent.
It’s hard for us to take the time to make sure she’s not under one of the ambulances.
Yesterday we found her sleeping under one of the Stryker stretchers.”
“Please can you take her?”

A little history for new readers.

Our homestead is in the woods
Way back 15 years ago a young farmer found what we thought was a tiny kitten while he was cutting hay.
He brought the kitty to us and asked
“Can you keep her”

Sure; and off to the vets we went with what
we thought was a kitten
The vet checked her over.
This was not a kitten.
It was a 4 month old cat.
Why was it so small?
The vet explained that the animal was starving so it was unable to grow.
Yikes that is so awful.
How could this happen.
The vet explained if cats aren’t fixed they just keep having babies over and over again
People can’t take care of them.
They just dump them somewhere in the woods.

Poor little thing.
Will she be OK?
Hard to say, Maybe, Hard to say.

We brought the little cat home to see if we could nurse her to health.
She got one sardine every three hours
Her tummy was so tiny it could only handle
little bits of food.
With good food and lots of love
The little cat started to grow.
Once nourished we learned she was not a she
The little kitty turned out to be a boy.
Later when he was in good health he was adopted by a wonderful family.
That little starving kitten-cat was the start of the cat re homing project.

In conjunction with
Georgian Animal Hospital over 20 stray, feral and suffering cats have been brought back to health, socialized and placed in loving homes.

So back to Stryker the cat.
Arrangements were made with Georgian check her over.
When the paramedic arrived at the vet with the cat he was asked for the cats name.
Ah Ah
He told us he just called her Stryker after the stretcher that her found her under

That’s how a stray cat got named after an ambulance stretcher.
Stryker was spayed, vaccinated and checked over. She was in good health.

The next day we picked her up and brought her home to the Homestead.

Patiently we slowly worked with her.
She is a beautiful girl.
Brown tabby with expressive eyes.
She was very scarred and it took a long time to socialize her.
We wondered if the homestead would be her forever home.

A few years have gone by and Stryker has blossomed into an affectionate loving lady.

Just the other day we got a call from a family

“Hi Mrs Wilson we are looking for a cat for our family. Sadly our last cat grew old and passed a year ago. At first we didn’t want another pet. Now time has passed and we’re ready for a new kitty.

“So, tell me about yourself and your family”
I need to be sure the cat will go to a very good and loving family.

The answer almost brought tears to my eyes
“I’m a paramedic. I work at the EMS”

We talked awhile and I reiterated the whole story about Stryker.

“Amazing.” he said.

The next day the family arrived at the homestead to visit with Stryker the cat.

The visit went so well.
Stryker ended this wonderful day sleeping at the end of her new families bed.

So there you have it.
The circle
The cat
The paramedic
The homestead
Stryker the cat going Home with the paramedic.

I just love this homestead life.

01/15/2021

One night Last summer part of our woods became the tunnel for a small tornado type uplift swirling wind.

It was dark when the storm hit.
We couldn’t see what was happening but we sure could hear that wind.

We sat inside just listening.
Thud. Then another Thud
Trees falling. The unmistakable Sound of a large tree trunk hitting the ground.

Before it was light the next morning we were outside surveying the property.

Part of our woods was decimated.
A pile of 27 downed trees thrown about like they were match sticks.

As the sun rose a few neighbours arrived to sooth our sadness
“This is a disaster” one friend said.
“Your trees are gone.
Why are you two still smiling?”

Our vegetable gardens are intensively planted so we get the most production possible.
Vegetables we grow are canned and frozen to fill our pantry.
The pantry stores our food and is the life blood of our sustainable food system.
We can rely on our pantry all winter.
Without our homegrown vegetables we would be forced to rely on
grocery stores for our food.

The day before the storm we were talking about creating more garden space.
Brussel sprouts, cauliflower and broccoli are very large plants.
They take up so much room in the garden. They also need full sun all summer long to grow maturity.
This meant we could only grow a few cauliflower. Cabbages and brussel sprouts had to be purchased.

Self reliance requires us to look at each area where we rely on a store and try to figure out how to satisfy that need from our property using our own man or women power.

We had walked around the homestead looking for space that would be suitable for growing cauliflower.
But alas too many trees.
To many shady areas.
No areas with enough sun to grow these cabbage family veggies.

So there we were; after the storm.
standing where the woods used to be.
Trees down all around us.

Did Mom Nature over hear our conversation?

I was so excited.
Visions of fresh harvested cauliflower.
Huge brussel sprout plants.
Broccoli, maybe more cabbages.
With all these trees gone this space would be full of sun all day.
Perfect for growing cauliflower.
Maybe I could even grow more squash.

Dave was busy surveying to
figure out how many years of
free fire wood lay at his feet.

So yes it was a disaster from our neighbours point of view.

To us it was long winter evenings.
Cuddling up by the wood stove.
Free fire wood. A warm house and
Lots more delicious home grown
Cauliflower.

01/09/2021

Did you know that you can have a source right here in Parry Sound for

Organically fed and raised chicken
Raised right here
Grass Fed Grass Finished Beef
Inspected and Processed at Sprucedale

Monthly organic in season veggies.

Yes you can.
We partner with other farmers and growers to bring you the very best local food.

It’s January
Mom Nature is hard at work.
This is the easy garden
You can’t see her but she there
Under the snow she is busy composting a layer of barn bedding we added to the top of our soil in the fall.

Our vegetables are grown in soil that we have created over the 16 years we’ve been here.
We take what we do very seriously.

We insist that every animal in our care lives a happy and healthy life.

We also seek to improve the environment with every move we make.
Permaculture methods are used to continually
Improve the air we breath and the
Soil that produce our vegetables

Available now
Squash $1.29 per pound
Butternut
Spaghetti
Pie Pumpkin
Acorn
Pepper.
Frozen squash purée $12.00
This is a large freezer bag full of cooked butternut squash.
Ready to use for pies, breads or as is for a tasty side dish.

Kale.
Blanched and frozen ready to use
Small $3. Large $12.00

Our own potatoes
$1.00 per pound.
5 pound bags packed with a mixture of
different types and colours.
Ready to cook.

Call ahead Pick up from our inspected and secure pick up table.
705 3899554

Have a happy, sunny, healthy day.

12/25/2020

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays
We are open between Christmas and New Years on a pre order and pick up basis.

We have our own organically raised meat birds
And lots of Grass Fed Grass Finished Beef.

We still make all the same favourites
Apple Pie
Apple Crumble Pie
Broken Butter Tart Pie
Butter Tarts
Meat Pot Pies
Beef and cheese Lasagna
Vegetarian Lasagna
Beef Shepard’s Pie

Please call 705 3899554 to order.

We hope you and yours are having a wonderful holiday time.

12/02/2020

When the phone rings on a Homestead
You never know what will happen next.

“Good Morning Wilson Homestead”

“Mrs Wilson, what is in your beef pot pies?”
“Beef”
“What else?”
“Potatoes, vegetables and beef bone broth
and a little organic flour to thicken the gravy”
Any MSG?
“No, No flavours or any other commercial stuff”
“So Mrs Wilson; you’re saying the beef pot pie is good for me?”

“I’m saying we use the very best ingredients that we can get.
We cook beef that is locally raised
We know who raises these cows.
These farmers practise the best and latest in permaculture methods.
Caring for the cows and improving the environment.
It’s all good and it’s all grown and produced in Ontario.”

“OK thanks, I wondered why it tasted so good”
“Can I order some more?”
“Yes you can”
Beef Pot Pie.
8.95. 22.00
Available
Porch pick-up. 7053899554
Trader Teds
The Muskoka North Good Food Coop

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