by | | Meet Your Niagara Farmer
A diverse group of farmers live in Niagara, growing and raising food and creatures from Ambrosia Apples to Zinnia Grandiflora, from Alpacas to Zebras. Some farmers live here traditionally as their families settled on land they were given from the crown. Some came...
by | | Meet Your Niagara Farmer
Many family farms owe their heritage or inheritance to the Grandfather. They ventured to another country and wanted to live on the land with their families and be self sufficient. Self sufficiency means one pig to sell and one pig for the family table; one cow for...
by | | Meet Your Niagara Farmer
“I will always have horses to look after, I can do this till I’m old,” laughs Renata McGillivray owner of Shady Maple Stables. “And there are so many advantages of having your job right at home. You can raise your kids and still work; you can work your schedule...
by | | Meet Your Niagara Farmer
From Nobleton to Niagara they moved and now this is where the bees are enjoying the biosphere at the new home of Rosewood Estates. The quality and quantity of honey from the urban areas was diminishing so the bees took a new route to Niagara. On two new sites the...
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By Ann Marie Chechalk If both your parents/grandparents were farmers, then maybe it is in your blood, or maybe you like the feeling of fresh air on your face and dirt under your fingernails. Or maybe it is time alone with your thoughts that leads you back to the land...
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By Ann Marie Chechalk John Wiens is ‘in a jam’, not a pickle, a definite jam. Up to his elbows in 39 different kinds of jam and he loves it. “I like to do this, I need to do something and I like to do something for others. “I enjoy making jam immensely,” he says....
