Examples of agricultural heritage and the legacy of farming are all around us. For many on Ontario highways and rural roads, bank barns, crops growing, and livestock pasturing represent a clear and symbolic connection to many generations of farming dating back to the early settlers.
The Dufferin Town and Country Farm Tour is a passport to understanding the diversity and complexity of modern agriculture through the profile of several operations in the townships of East Luther and Amaranth. The farm tour is a venue to reconnect consumers to the producers of the food we eat.
It also provides a window to share talk and learn about other related farm and rural interests. Tour Amaranth and East Luther Townships and see farming as it happens.
Advance registration is not required and there is no admission.
The tour will include a beef farm, dairy operation, equestrian facility, alpaca farm, sheep farm and one of Ontario’s largest wetland areas, the Luther Marsh. A non-perishable food donation to the food bank is appreciated.
PasSports with maps showing the tour route and host locations can be picked up from 9am until 2pm on the day of the tour, at:
– Hills of Headwaters Tourism Information Centre, Orangeville;
Highway 10 and Buena Vista Drive;
– Grand Valley Public School, at the north end of Grand Valley, on County Road. 25; and
– Bluwood Canada, in Shelburne, at the west end of town, on Highway 89
