To date, there are 22 farms in the OFT, adding up to more than 2,500 acres of land
The OFT works with landowners to help them through the process of putting what’s called a “conservation easement” on their property so that it is protected as a food producing landscape in perpetuity.
According to the OFT, Ontario is losing around 319 acres of farmland a day, and one of the reasons for that is the increasingly high cost of the land.
Being the best in the country, the farmland in southern and southwestern Ontario is also some of the most expensive, and with the cost of real estate as it is, aspiring young farmers can’t afford to purchase property to farm on.
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