The Rural Voice, 2003-05, Page 22at home. This way they get started
and may like it. Maybe one of 10 will
stay in the business."
That type of public relations is
important to the industry, says Ernst.
"It's also another aspect of the Royal.
We are getting the farm to the
people. It is important to the industry
that urban people and others who
don't farm know what we do."
For the Gubelmanns at least, what
they do is a way of life which has
been embraced by the entire family.
"Farming is family," says Ernst.
"Working together."
He recalls time spent with both
daughters when he hired them part-
time during their high school years,
to help with chores. "I got to know
them better. We got to talking in the
barn and it was good."
Stefan attended Ridgetown
College to study agriculture and
his wife works on a pig farm.
Though Yolanda didn't grow up on
a farm, she is actively involved now.
However, she jokes, Ernst said she
was the most difficult apprentice he
ever had.
"Usually when you have an
apprentice you tell them what to do,
but she always knew better," he
laughs.
Apprenticing was a good part of
rural life in Switzerland. However,
agriculture in that country is highly -
regulated, something he hopes not to
see happen in Canada. '1 am
concerned that sometime it will be. I
see things coming, but I hope they
don't overdo it."
After all, Canada has been the
place for Gubelmanns to make
dreams come true. "It is a nice
country, with nice people."0
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