
Photo credit: Peter Baumgarten, Creative Island Photography
Exploring the truth behind common misconceptions of modern agriculture is an important part of our lives as a farming family. It’s a conversation @CanManFarm and I have with people almost daily. We do extensive research on ways to best manage our farm when it comes to everything from soil and crop management to caring for our animals and on working on ways to have a sustainable environment for future generations. We’re passionate not only about providing safe and high-quality beef for consumers, but also about being good stewards to the land as well. This is why we were excited to watch License to Farm.
Though my family is a farming family, my husband and I are also consumers and parents. Food safety is of the utmost importance to us. This is why we insist on making informed decisions when it comes to how we operate our farm and what we buy in stores.
License to Farm is a documentary that offers an interesting and perhaps different perspective for consumers (both non-farming and farming) when it comes to agriculture and production. I believe it’s worth checking out if you haven’t seen it already.
** In case you’re wondering (because some of you might be!), this is NOT a sponsored post. This is just something I thought would be interesting to discuss.
Even tho we farmed for over 35 years, I have learned some new facts about farming in Canada. I did not realize how small a percentage of the popu.ation. farming involves. Of course, we have seen this trend on our Island over the years. When we moved to our second farm, almost everyone farmed. Now it is done by a very few corporate farmers and a few organic ones,
You have to love farming to stay in it.
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Thank you for continuing to farm! I as a consumer do try to support local businesses and Ontario grown food when I’m shopping for my family. I think its really important to keep family farms like yours going as mass produced food (factory farmed) isn’t sustainable, ok for the environment or particularly healthy.
Other than trying to be conscious of what we are buying what are some other ways we city folk could help local farming families?
Thanks for posting this. Just checked out the documentary and admit that I have been basing choices on popular news. You see so many things on FB about how dangerous food we feed our families is and it is hard to know what is true and what isn’t. . Interesting info in the video.