Wagyu Genetics In Demand World Wide
Twenty years ago, Japan exported a small group of prized cattle. Tracing its progeny has since become the preoccupation of breeders, chefs and beef fans. Here’s how one Ontario farmer…
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Aberfoyle Market Minute: More Local Vendors This Weekend
This weekend at the market features the return of some beloved past vendors. We are so excited to announce that Sun Rise Acres and Everlasting Designs are back! Sun Rise…
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Top Five Reasons to Support Your Local CSA: Drumlin Farm
By Daina Makinson This year you can have it your way with a Drumlin Farm CSA* share. For those of you who have yearned to support a local farmer for…
CSBA Award of Merit Goes To Bill Crow
President Dave Vandenbroek welcomed members and guests to the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Swine Breeders Association. There were 151,800 individual purebred swine registered in 2015, the highest number ever…
Meet Rockford – The Tallest Steer In Puslinch!
A couple of weeks ago Robert Fera from Deerpath Breeding and Development contacted me to say they had the “tallest steer in Puslinch” as a pet at their equine reproduction…
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Junior Farmers club to begin in Puslinch
PUSLINCH – Are you from Puslinch or the Guelph area and interested in joining Junior Farmers? Then the Puslinch Junior Farmers is the place to be. Dale Sutton is planning…
Market Minute: How to Pick a Really Good Cantaloupe
This week the Aberfoyle Farmers’ Market celebrate the sweet, aromatic juicy melon! There’s few fruits I love more than a cantaloupe in season. I recently learned from a local farmer…
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Market Minute: Taste the Difference Local Makes!
Come to the Aberfoyle Farmers’ Market and taste the difference between store bought grape tomatoes from the United States and Vandenbroek Farm’s locally grown fresh picked grape tomatoes. The market…
Local crops are suffering from rain, lack of sun
Crops in Wellington County may look promising in the field, but experts say corn, soybeans and wheat are all struggling, overly wet and heat deprived. It will have to get…