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.

Despite her claims about having a “zero background in agriculture”, Jenn VanDeVelde’s willingness to adopt new ideas about farm diversification and community building fashioned her into becoming one of Norfolk’s emerging farm leaders.