Everyone agrees that alternative land use services and ecological goods and services are promising projects to pursue. But Ontario farmers are not alone in finding them difficult to get off the ground
by MARY BAXTER
In 2008, Steve and Anita Buehner grew their last tobacco crop. Like other growers wrestling with the decline in the province’s tobacco industry, the Norfolk County couple had been searching for a replacement. They found their answer in diversifying their 180 acres near Waterford into cash crops, apple production and agritourism with a focus on lavender and wine.