Farming

Local sunflower and lavender farms are bursting with some of nature’s showiest blooms. Here’s how to enjoy them in person and via handmade products that capture the magic.

How cover crops, crop rotation and using livestock to fertilize fields puts local farmers on the front lines in reducing climate change.

As farmer Jeannette French notes, farming in Headwaters may always be a work in progress, but this community provides the motivation it takes to forge ahead.

Our forebears knew how to put sunshine in a jar. You can too.

Vegetable grower extraordinaire Karen Hollingshead uses galvanized steel raised beds and water troughs to hold her 35 varieties of tomatoes and other gems.

But the principles of head, heart, hands and health still thrive in Headwaters.

In the dark cloud of the pandemic, a silver lining for small farmers.

So we wonder, amid the disruption and heartbreak, what future is being born in this moment?

How local growers are tapping a surging demand for the tiny, tasty stems that pack a nutritional punch.

This duo brings Dufferin’s farmers together with foodies, chefs, students and families.

Dufferin Farm Tour offers a behind-the-scenes peek at agricultural life in the county.

Alix and George Bezak raise black Angus cattle, chickens and more at their Mono property, winning over natural-meat converts one farm tour at a time.