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Listen to OLDIES news Tuesdays this Fall to connect with our local farmers and learn from their experiences.
OLDIES will shine a spotlight on a local farm operator from one of five different sectors each week.
SEEDS OF SUCCESS: The Hudson Sweet Corn Farmers
It's official name is Panmure Farms, and if you pass the bend on Upper Dwyer Hill Road, you've gone too far. Brian and Bruce Hudson are the sixth of eight generations on the land which is nine years shy of becoming a second century farm in Kinburn. If Hudson Sweet Corn is not a registered genetic variety, it's an ident...
Oct 24, 2023
SEEDS OF SUCCESS: Kevin Mayhew of Maywell Farms in Fitzroy Harbour
Start with a hay field, add some laying hens, mix in alpaca fibre and some honey bees, and you have the cash crop equation for Fitzroy Harbour's Maywell Farms. Of course there's the almost-obligatory off-farm jobs for farmer Kevin Mayhew and his spouse, who took over the father-in-law's farm four years ago, but as he s...
Oct 17, 2023
SEEDS OF SUCESSS: Cindi Gardner, McNab Riding School
Cindi Gardner, of the McNab Riding School on McLean Drive in McNab-Braeside, came to love being around horses at an early age- perhaps unusual for a city girl, but her interest began in elementary school in Ottawa's Westboro neighbourhood. Turns out, one of her childhood friends had a horse farm in Luskville Quebec- an...
Oct 10, 2023
SEEDS OF SUCCESS: Grace Philp, Dairy Farm Worker
Grace Philp will have a long and rewarding career in the dairy industry. Where many dairy farmers are looking to retire, she's just getting started. Grace began her farming interest as a co-op student on a beef farm. While she fell in love with cows there, today she is a dairy farm worker and can't ever see herself doi...
Oct 03, 2023
SEEDS OF SUCCESS: Rayburn Evans, Drover and Beef Farmer
Rayburn Evans' off-farm job is as a drover, while he still maintains a three hundred head beef operation on the 12th line in Pakenham. The original family farm is submerged in the Madawaska head-pond, and Evans has been fifty-four years with the sales barns. He says the employment-related school subjects of spelling, a...
Sep 26, 2023