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Looking back over another year, one thing I know for sure is that this
industry is made up of a passionate bunch of hardworking, heartfelt, and dedicated people making a difference.
There are so many good things coming about to bring awareness and accessibility to providers of food and wine. Canada’s first ‘village’ of its kind is launching in early 2020. The District Wine Village will house artisans, small batch wine, cider, spirits and beer producers, along with a 600-person entertainment centre. Read more about this exciting development in this issue.
The Year End Issue is always an interesting one for us. It’s an opportunity to post questions to you, the reader, to find out what you’ve been up to, how your crops were this year, what’s popular and profitable, along with some of the challenges you’ve faced. We are so grateful for all the valuable information you share with us.
There have been a lot of meetings and discussions over changes to the Agricultural Land Reserve to find out what farmers need to stay on their farm and run viable businesses. I think at this point it’s not necessarily about what has been done in the past as we can learn what doesn’t work. Rather, it’s about what can be done for the future, our future of food and the future of farming. I am hoping that government is listening to all the valuable input from our growers. Can they take what is being said and do what’s best to keep farmers on the farm, producing quality food?
You’ll notice inside this edition that we’ve expanded our annual grower survey to Facebook to get a wider understanding of what growers and other farmers had to say. There were so many responses and comments, we thank everyone who took the time to respond and voice their opinion.
2020 is upon us, that’s going to be a fun year to pronounce aloud, twenty twenty. It’s a new decade, do you have any big changes happening? We invite you to share with us if you like.
Happy New Year, enjoy the magazine!