9:30am: Join us for a morning tour of Everdale Farm, located just outside of Hillsburg, ON. One of Canada’s oldest not-for-profit farms, Everdale’s goal is to help to build food resilience in local communities. Their main farm products are organic vegetables and they also have small flocks of sheep and chickens and occasionally other livestock. They sell directly to local households and grow food for food banks and other local organizations that support people in need.

1:00pm: After lunch we will meet at Heartwood Farm and Cidery. They are the humble and careful stewards of a 42-acre farm, where they raise cows, pigs, sheep, chickens and bees, and grow apples, maple trees, and other fruit and nut trees. They have chosen the practice of Regenerative Farming for their land in an effort to maintain the healthiest soil, water systems, agriculture and livestock possible.

This in-person field day is part of the Ignatius Farm New Farmer Training Program – a collaboration between Ignatius Jesuit Centre, EFAO, Everdale and the National Farmers Union – Ontario.