Wille and Didi Curry live in a fieldstone home, built in 1864, on Pancake Hill, in Centre Hastings. They call their small farm Hill Top Pastures.
CIPM farm is a certified organic cash crop operation, growing about 350 acres of cereals and other grains each year.
In 1989, Charlen Organic Farm started out by growing about one acre of produce and selling only at Brighton’s Farmer’s Market.
Dale, Fay and Mark Grant of Gran-Jou Farms breed Black Angus beef cattle. “They are bred, born and raised on our farm, from free-range contented cows,” said Dale.
Dave Harry is a long-time organic farmer who understands the need to care for the soil and the importance of following good crop rotations.
Janet and Henry Ellenberger farm on The Ridge, south of Coehill. Henry’s family farm was near Maynooth. The Ridge runs north south and is an area of high ground with good soils surrounded by forests.
Elly and Grant Blanchard farm at the south edge of the Canadian Shield, north of Madoc in the Hamlet of Cooper.
Dennis McCarrell , with his sons, rear certified organic beef at their farm on Maple Road in Stirling-Rawdon.
Shawn Milne of Maple Crest Farms runs a Certified Organic Farm producing beef, chicken, eggs adn garden vegetables, He sells his produce at the Belleville Farmers’ Market through the summer months Sat