The wheels of government action may grind slowly. But Foreign Agricultural Resource Management Services (FARMS) President Robert Shuh believes they are grinding in the right direction.

A new space has opened in Downtown Simcoe, the aptly named Chill Spot. As assumed by the name, this new location offers a space for foreign farm forkers to relax, hangout with one another, and receive support when visiting Downtown Simcoe.

Branching Path Farm grows such a diversity of food, they even have a goji berry bush that is descended from a slip taken from Toronto Mayor Olivia Chow’s garden.

Marburg community activist and veteran purebred swine breeder Mary Field and her husband, Jim, married in the days when farm women were seen as “farm wives” who publicly went by their husbands’ first names.

When Sarah Judd (née Harrigan) of Meadowlynn Farms left for the University of Guelph to pursue her undergraduate degree, she vowed that she would never marry a farmer.

For Heidi Mungal of Generations Marketplace there is truly never a dull moment, everything from feeding livestock, and planting gardens, to teaching homesteading skills, and running a marketplace is all part of a day’s work.