Join longtime EFAO member Ken Laing of Orchard Hill Farm for this quarterly meet-up. This time, he’ll host an insightful discussion about his proven strategies and hard-earned lessons on boosting pasture production. He will dive into his personal experiences, sharing the why, how, and benefits of renovating pasture land and how to enhance this with rotational grazing strategies. Following Ken’s short presentation, there will be lots of time for questions and discussion among participants.

In 1979, after Ken Laing graduated from the University of Guelph’s horticulture program, he and his wife Martha started farming near St. Thomas, ON. Orchard Hill Farm has produced a wide variety of small fruit, vegetable and field crops organically since 1989. In 2020, Orchard Hill Farm became the horticultural site for Living Labs (an Agriculture and Agri-food Canada program) in co-operation with the Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario [EFAO]. The goal was to develop no-till strategies for organically grown vegetables.