Premier-designate Wynne to visit vegetable farm in Bradford Wednesday
Posted February 6, 2013 9:26 am.
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Premier-designate Kathleen Wynne heads into farming country Wednesday to meet with stakeholders at Gwillimdale Farms in Bradford, about 70 kilometres north of Toronto.
Wynne is to tour the farm which grows onions, potatoes, carrots, parsnips and beets on the outskirts of the fertile Holland Marsh in Ontario’s Greenbelt.
Wynne, who won the Liberal leadership last month, has promised to appoint herself as agriculture minister for at least one year at some point in her term.
During the leadership campaign, Wynne admitted the Liberal government’s popularity has suffered in rural Ontario, partly over industrial wind turbines.
At a Liberal debate in Ingersoll in December the leadership candidates were met by protesters with signs declaring “Rage Against Green Energy” and “Stop Wind Power.”
Wynne has said agriculture is of great concern to the government.
According to Gwillimdale Farms website, it has been family owned and operated for four generations and realigned its farming interests in 1995 to enter the fresh vegetable market.
It recently started introducing natural compost into the fields. Also, vegetables that are not used for processing are composted with manure, providing a chemical-free fertilizer.
