Reading Time: 11 minutes Have you ever met a young farmer who was fresh out of ideas? Neither have we. The utter thrill of getting into farming for the first time is incomparable. The freedom to make one’s own decisions and, rightly or wrongly, see those decisions through. With time, of course, farmers gain perspective. Perhaps those older voices […] Read more
Quebec farmers still learning after 10 years
After a decade farming, these Quebec farmers know that there’s always more to learn
Does Canada have enough young farmers?
It probably depends on what you mean by “enough”
Reading Time: 5 minutes Jennifer VanDeVelde never planned to farm. She graduated university with a biology degree, attended teachers college and went straight into the classroom. Five years later, in 2006, VanDeVelde left that classroom and joined her husband, David, a fourth-generation tobacco farmer, on the family farm in Delhi, Ont. The VanDeVeldes, both 40, transitioned out of tobacco […] Read more
The distributor’s business
Bondi Produce in Toronto trucks farm produce inside one of Canada’s most diverse food markets, and sees more opportunities for farmers every day
Reading Time: 8 minutes “We’re selling commodities, which is the exciting part of it. And we’re selling a perishable product, which adds this real pressure,” Ezio Bondi tells me as we walk about his distribution centre here in Toronto. It’s some warehouse. The business started in 1976 with one man — Ezio’s grandfather — and his pickup truck. Some […] Read more
Look north for fruits and vegetables
These Saskatchewan farm projects are winning converts in some surprising places
Reading Time: 6 minutes The northern village of Cumberland House seems an unlikely place to find a farm or a farmer. For starters, it’s remote — 450 kilometres north east of Saskatoon at the end of Highway 123, a notoriously bad road that spring can turn into one long mud-hole. The village, established by the Hudson Bay Company in […] Read more
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