About Us

Black River runs along the edge of our property in Prince Edward County. The Anishnaabeg, Wendat, and Haudenosaunee peoples stewarded this land long before the settlers who cleared it, and the Kanien'keha:ka community of Tyendinaga is still our neighbour today. Farming here means being in relationship with that history, whether you name it or not. We try to name it.

Paper Kite is Judy and Hans, farming five acres in Prince Edward County with our two kids and a small team. The name came naturally — paper and kites both trace back to Chinese culture, and this is one of the windiest corners of Ontario. Farming itself was less obvious. For ten years we ran Hotel Ambrose in Montreal. Then the pandemic arrived and rearranged everything, and Judy pointed at the land and said this is what we're doing now. That turned out to be the right call.

What grows here is shaped by who we are. Judy's family farmed in Laos, fled to Thailand during the Vietnam War, and kept growing when they arrived in North America, guerrilla gardening in public green spaces to hold onto the tastes of home. Some of those seeds made their way to this five acres of Black River clay and grow in our fields today. Growing food here is how we explore who we are — the vegetables that don't show up at the grocery store, the dishes our kids are growing up eating and learning to make. It's also just about feeding people. Neighbours, visitors, the community we're slowly becoming part of. Those two things turn out not to be in conflict.

The farming itself is regenerative. Rotational grazing, biochar, slow soil building. Small farms like ours are part of a larger food system that we think matters — one built around real relationships between growers and the people they feed, not supply chains that stretch across continents. The goal is to leave this land in better shape than we found it, and to leave the local food economy a little stronger too.

Find us at the Picton Farmers Market on Sunday mornings, at the deli and farm store at the gate, or at one of our Hill Tribe Farm Dinners when the season is right. In the summer, kids are welcome at our day camp. If you want to slow down and see how food actually gets made, there's room for that here too.

We look forward to growing for you.

Your farmers,
Judy and Hans

212 County Rd 16
Milford, ON  K0K 2P0