Shopping's a real family outing at Morden's Organic Farm Store.
   Bring the children and visit our mini-barn filled with animals. Enjoy our child-friendly setting where kids can play safely inside and out -- and parents can shop in a relaxed atmosphere as in days gone by.

Children and adults alike love visiting our mini-barn to see Paige, the miniature horse, rabbits, kittens and a wide array of exotic birds. See their pictures here.
 

• affordable drug & chemical free meats
  
• wild caught fish
  
• organic eggs, butter and cheeses
  
• year round organic produce
  
• organic dry goods

A little bit of history in your own back yard

The history of Morden's Organic Farm Store began more than 200 years ago.  During the American Revolution (1775–1783), a significant proportion of the population of New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and other states and colonies remained loyal to Britain and King George III.  Eventually many people fled the United States to go back to England or emigrate to Canada or the Bahamas.

The Mordens were just such a family.  Sandy Morden's ancestors, starting with Jonathan Morden settled this very location back in 1801. He was about 38 when he came from Knowlton County, N.J. in the summer of 1799 with his young family.

Attracted by the potential waterpower offered by the Spencer Creek, many early settlers settled this area of FlamboroughWest.

In 1799, Jonathon Morden built the first mill on the Spencer Creek above the escarpment a dam and sawmill on the site. His son James,“Big Jim,” added a grist mill in 1841.The Morden family operated these mills until they burned in 1905.

Jacob, Jonathon’s grandson, built the big stone house that is still the Morden residence today, and trimmed it with wood from trees felled on the property.

Jacob married Euphemia, a Scottish lass with whom he is buried in the churchyard at Bullock's Corners in Greensville. They had 4 children, the third was John Fraser born in 1869.

John Fraser and his wife, Catharine, had two children, Jacob Osborne, known as Oz and Fraser McDonald. Fraser, the oldest son gave up the farm to Oz who had a family. Fraser got himself a little house down Old Brock Road and went to work at Silverwood's Dairy. Oz, known for raising some of the best beef cattle around, dug in and planted enough acres of Weatherston and Roxbury spuds to earn himself the title "Potato King".

Oz and Victoria raised their children Don and Jean in the big stone house and when Don married Diane (Sandy's parents), Oz bought them a little farm in Greensville where they raised dairy cattle and poultry and grew mixed grains.

And this is where Sandy's story starts to take shape. When she was 5, Don's farm was expropriated for conservation land expansion so he moved his family up north to a farm in Moorefield. Victoria died the following year and Oz farmed as long as he could but left his farm in the early 1990's and moved in with Don up north, passing away 3 years later.

By then Sandy was working for a Harriston based organic food company called Nutri Spring Farms Ltd., Sandy bought into the company and is now sole owner. Because her primary market was Toronto, she began looking for something more central and the old Morden homestead, though in rough shape, seemed like the perfect solution.

She bought the farm in 1997 and set about clearing the heavily overgrown land and refurbishing the crumbling farm buildings.

Today, her businesses are run from this charming reminder of Ontario’s colourful history.


Above left: 'Loyalist Landing'  by Adam Sherriff Scott  -United Empire Loyalists landing at the mouth of the Saint John River in May of 1783. Above Right: Jacob Morden. Above Left: Sandy Morden and brother John.  Right: the Morden farm in the 1950s