Potato growers looking to hedge quarry’s pitfalls
The Grower September 2011
Six thousand acres of Honeywood silt loam, coveted by potato growers surrounding Shelburne, Ontario, sit at the head of a simmering controversy. “The BMW of soil” is how Kate Armstrong describes the legacy of her great-great-great-great grandfather who first farmed there in 1853. It’s prized for the artesian springs and seeps that naturally water the crop through droughts.
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