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Cyril and Isaballa Shaw are the fourth generation to live at the Shaw Farm on Keller’s Bridge Road. They ran a dairy farm until the nineties and now concentrate on making maple syrup.

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Cec and Caroline Stamp run Rockfield Farm, in Boulter in the Hastings Highlands. They have an organic garden offering a variety of vegetables, flowers, herbs and assorted garlic.

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Terry and Vickie Gervais’s family farm is located at 254 Maple Sugar Road, Tyendinaga Township, Ontario, Canada.

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Charles Robinson comes from a United Empire Loyalist family that settles on Robinson Road near Eldorado in Madoc Township. He has lived and farmed there all his life. On the farm they produce hay and cash crops and maple syrup. He is now a Madoc Township councillor and has assisted with the phase-in of conservation-minded waste management procedures.

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Rosemary and Bob Gates run an orchard on the Stockdale Road, north of Trenton, in Quinte West, just look for the happy apple sign. They have a variety of apples including Quinte, Vista Bella, Macs, Royal Gala, Spy, Cortland, Russets, Red Delicious, Empire, Spartan, Granny Smith and Crispin.

The Gates start picking in late July and continue until October. You can purchase apples at the Trenton Farmers’ Market or at the farm gate.

They bought the place in 1974 as greenhorns and have certainly come a long way. They have been vendors at the Trenton Farmers’ Market since 1975. They also sell maple syrup made by their son Joey and honey made by their son Bobbie.

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Mike and Linda Murphy farm on Murphy Road on the rolling hills south west of Tweed. They rear beef cattle, make hay, make maple syrup, grow potatoes and vegetables.