Attendees at the Grain Farmers of Ontario District 5 (Elgin/Norfolk) received insight into the latest on the fertilizer market from the head of the country’s largest farm co-operative.

There’s a few common reactions when visitors to Transitions Acres first encounter the horses. Sometimes they’ll stop in their tracks, mesmerized.

Some things just don’t seem like they would go well together, such as black currants and Norfolk County’s sandy loam soil, or school teachers and farming. However, for Vittoria’s Russel Blake, those four things have combined along with many learning experiences, and a constant willingness to evolve to formulate his career over the last 25 years.

When they moved to a small, Hartford-area acreage in 2008, newlyweds Nick and Hilary VanderHeide asked, “How can we make some money from this acreage?”

Agritourism Ontario (AO) Chief Executive Officer Kevin Vallier was permitted a quiet moment of celebration this past December on the one-year anniversary of provincial Bill 186, The Growing Agri-Tourism Act.

It was anything but a barrel of laughs. But a 50-gallon shipping container provided a welcome layer of protection as Hurricane Melissa destroyed Dwayne Demontagnac’s Black River-area, Jamaica house around him.