Gleaners Organic Garden is a great asset to the Gleaners Food Bank and to the community. It help improves the clients diet and health; it converts a vacent parking lot into a green space; helps clean the air and reduce the carbon imprint; conserves water from the warehouse roof, gives students and clients a chance to help plant organic heritage seeds and organic gardening, and provide patio plants for seniors and youth at risk.
Doug Jarrell runs Doug Jarrell Auctions Ltd as well as a farm. He raised heifers, beef cattle and pure bred Texel sheep for breeding ang for meat. You can buy beef and lamb at the auction barn on Wednesdays when they hold a sale.
Much of the milk produced in Hastings County goes to Reid's Dairy in Belleville to be processed into a variety of milk products. Reid's Dairy has a long history.
Les and Joyce Naylor breed emu at Naylor Emu Farm. Emu are large brown birds, which can't fly. They are native to Australia. They stand around 1.5 - 1.8 metre tall and weigh 45 - 64 kilograms.
Friendly Acres - A family farming tradition since 1844. The Gray family farm spans six generations of continuous operation in Tyendinaga and Thurlow Townships since 1844.
John Richter, with his daughter Nadine, and help from his wife Dianne, run Richters' Greenhouse. This is the second year they have opened their greenhouse and market garden at 8786 Highway 62 North, just north of Foxboro. John is an experienced nursery man and grower, and is proud to say they take everything 'from seed to sale'.
Norm and Fred McCaw live at 1071 Harrington Road, R.R.#2, Frankford. They used to be dairy farmers but now rear beef cattle, cash crop and growing soft fruit, apples and vegetables. They took over West Moira Orchards on the 537 Moira Street West in October 2007 from Kurt and Karen Kaiser. Judy McCaw runs the roadside store is on the south side of West Moira Road and the 100 acre farm is on the north side.
