Roughly 2,000 Ontario farms practice some form of agritourism. But many are finding that provincial policies and local approval processes are lagging far behind. ‘Somebody has to make judgment calls on these things,’ says one regional official
by Mary Baxter
Agritourism hadn’t been their first choice. But by the early 2000s, even with two jobs each, Lynne Ellis and Mark Henry were finding it difficult to meet the costs of their 80-acre farm and small herd of sheep in Prince Edward County near Picton.
“It was getting to the point that we actually thought we may have to sell and leave here,” says Henry.