Seeds of Success: Ferme Pure Conscience
Seeds of Success wraps up its five-week run in Bristol, Quebec, where a small farm has a big mission: your health. Ferme Pure Conscience opened its doors to the Pontiac and Ottawa Valley five years ago after co-owner Gema Villavicencio left the world...
Oct 24, 2023
SEEDS OF SUCCESS: McGregor's Orchard
The long-standing tradition of family farms is alive and well in the Ottawa Valley. The husband-and-wife team of Cameron and Mandy McGregor decided after their third child was born in 2015 to move away from the hustle of their 9-to-5 jobs and go back...
Oct 17, 2023
SEEDS OF SUCCESS: Martha Larkin and Mark Groen of Largro Farms
The Canadian horse might be one of the few officially recognized national animals you didn't know existed. Martha Larkin and Mark Groen of Renfrew's Largro Farms have begun a breeding program to help keep the breed alive in the Ottawa Valley, with th...
Oct 10, 2023
SEEDS OF SUCCESS: Klaas and Johanna de Vries of Homestead de Vries
A recent addition to Renfrew's local agricultural scene, Homestead de Vries taps into the owners' experience farming in the Netherlands for their day-to-day dairy operations. Partners Klaas and Johanna de Vries share a deep connection to dairy farmin...
Oct 03, 2023
SEEDS OF SUCCESS: Shanna Armstrong, Pinnacle Haven Farm
The history of sheep farming in Canada has one thread running through a small farm on Renfrew's Garden of Eden Road. Shanna Armstrong of Pinnacle Haven Farm is a third generation producer of lamb meat raising the same lineage of Pulled Dorset sheep h...
Sep 26, 2023