Site selection nears for Ontario agri-food discovery centre
With just two per cent of Canadians living in a rural setting, it means the vast majority have no connection to where their food comes from.
Valérie Grenier, member of the Canadian Alpine Ski Team talks what it was like growing up on an egg farm and how it shaped her for success
Look for the EQA logo at your local grocery store, it tells you that your eggs are fresh and come from local farms.
With just two per cent of Canadians living in a rural setting, it means the vast majority have no connection to where their food comes from.
As famers across southwestern Ontario flirt with record-breaking warmth, many are watching the skies, waiting to start preparations for the colder months ahead.
Ontario farmers are logging extra hours, as they work into the night during the fall grain harvest.
After decades of welcoming the public to their land, the Shantz Family Farm in Petersburg is in its final year of selling pumpkins to the public.
The Mills' have turned the 11 bison they started with in 1992, into roughly 100 bison. Mills said the majestic animals are protective, and have a strong herd mentality, but said as long as you treat them with respect, and stay calm around them, he likes working with them better than beef cattle.
Mushrooms can make or break many dishes and as more consumers look to buy local, an operation in Baden is looking to fill that gap.
Jennifer Osborn, a local farmer, believes Canada, and really, the world, has a wool problem.
Frank Louwagie is proud of what he does, raising and collecting milk from 150 Holstein cows at his family's state of the art barn near Mitchell, Ont.
A Kingsville-based data collection company in Ruthven Ont. is bringing autonomous computer imaging and tracking technology inside vegetable greenhouses to fine tune indoor growing methods.