Are you interested in learning about Canadian agriculture across the country?
Farm & Food Care Ontario, in partnership with Farm & Food Care Saskatchewan and Farm & Food Care Prince Edward Island, are inviting the public to celebrate Canada’s Agriculture Day on Tuesday, February 22nd, 2022.
The three organizations are collectively hosting three live virtual farm tours to showcase Canadian farmers and the food they produce.
Farm & Food Care Ontario, a coalition of farmers, agriculture, and food partners, proactively work together to provide credible information and ensure public trust about food and farming in Ontario and across Canada.
Canada’s Agriculture Day is a chance to celebrate how Canadian food is made, as well as those who produce it. Register for one or all three of the following tours being held on February 22nd, 2022.
1PM EST: Virtual tour featuring a vegetable farm
Join the McKenna family as they give a tour of Bunny Burrow Vegetable Co. Located in Kinkora, Prince Edward Island, see how a family farm grows carrots and turnips on a large scale.
2PM EST: Virtual tour featuring a beef farm
Learn what it is like to be on a beef farm in Eastern Canada. Emma Butler and her husband Josh raise beef, lamb, chicken and crops and own and operate their on-farm retail store, J&E Meats.
3PM EST: Virtual tour featuring a pig farm
Attend a virtual tour of a hog barn located in Western Canada, and ask Sarah Heppner, a farm girl and marketing manager of Fast Genetics (a big breeding company) questions in real time.
Each webinar will be 20 to 30 minutes in duration. To register for any of the tours, visit here.
Feel free to share what you are doing and how you are celebrating Canada’s Agriculture Day by using the hashtag #CdnAgDay.