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By Ann-Maureen Owens
with photography by Kat Kopiak Coffey
Tammara Maher is passionate about the benefits of whole foods, community involvement and having a sense of purpose in life. That is why she is in the forefront of the urban farm movement, with a new kind of farm — an indoor, year-round farm located right in the heart of Kingston.
A fixture at local farmers’ markets and a sought-after speaker about healthy eating, sustainable gardening as well as producing food locally, Tammara draws on her own experience and a love of learning new skills to extend her successful small business and share what she has learned with others. She specializes in growing microgreens — nutrient-dense, very young shoots of vegetables and herbs, such as broccoli, sunflower and pea shoots, along with wheatgrass, cress and ruby stem radish.
“Producing year-round healthy food that is easily accessible to people in the community is important to me. At the same time,” Tammara says, “I want to make it available to those who may not be able to afford these products by working with community organizations.”
Born in Cambridge, Ontario, the middle child in a family of three daughters, Tammara credits the few years that the family lived on a hobby farm in the Kitchener-Waterloo area . . .
