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Home My WebLink AboutTimes Advocate, 1993-06-09, Page 19FARM 1IPDATF Times -Advocate, June 9,1993 Paige 19 Dear Editor: The Ausable Bayfield Con�txva- tion Authority, ABCA would like to thank Mr. Burgess for his letter ( Times Advocate June 2) regard- ing our Shoreline Management Plan, (SMP). The ABCA, a com- munity and watershed based deliv- ery agency was vary pleased to hold its eighth shoreline manage- ment meeting to receive input from the 'public. This amount of public participation is far more than any provincial ministry would have provided, and there will be two more meetings on June 25 and 26, 1993. The shoreline ecosystem is far more complex than the riverine ec- osystem which Mr. Burgess is lo- cated on, hence the need to pro- vide language in the SMP that is 'Leonard Lovell of Kipper, points out some strawberry buds that will be ready for harvesting in a week or two. Pick your own local strawberries KIPPEN - Strawberry season will soon be upon us. Somehow it al- ways seems to be•the unofficial be- ginning of summer, with tasty homemade pies, tans, and jams gracing our kitchen table. However, Leonard Lovell, a local produce farmer who has been har- vesting strawberries for the past 23 years, says this years crop will only be mediocre compared to crops from past years. "if weather stays cold, they'll be late." said Lovell " our earlier variety has suffered some winter kill so they will not be as good." ;But, if all goes according to plan the early variety of strawberries should be ready around June 15, and the late variety about seven days later. Lovell expects the har- vest to last from nine days to three weeks. As Lovell puts it, "mother nature determines the whole thing." Fnodland Ontario offers some ad- vice for strawberry connoisseurs: • Look for bevies that are com- pletely coloured, have a sweet smell, and no white or green spots. Although a strawberry may contin- ue to turn red aft; picking, it will never develop the full flavor. • Avoid crushed berries, and be wary of berries packed in juice - stained containers. • Upon purchasing, immediately pick them over and remove any damaged berries, then refrigerate the remaining berries with hulls in- tact, unwashed, and uncovered, in a single layer - but use them within three days. In total Loveu has 18 acres of strawberries, however only six acres will be harvested this year. Lovell also abstains from the use of herbicides which he says are not popular with many strawberry buy- ers. • Farm tractor show coming to Stratford STRATFORD - The fourth annu- al Festival City Farm Toy Show is in Stratford on Sunday. July 11 and you can relive your childhood memories of• toys by viewing lots of old original and restored farm toys along with related items on display and for sale at the show! The show will be held in the Col- iseum Complex of the Stratford Agricultural Society Fairgrounds with general public admission from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. The Complex will be a busy hub of activity on July 11 as farm toy collectors from around Ontario come together for the shote. Beef on a Bun and all the trim- mings will be served following the show. Food and Fun Beef BBQ will be open to everyone, tickets first come, first serve basis so book early to avoid disappointment. Con- tact Kim Heinmiller 160 Franklin St. S. Kitchener, Ontario N2C 1R7 or (519) 893-0468. The Ertl Company of Toronto will be in attendance to display their toy line to show goers. Also participating at the show will be adult and serious farm toy collectors along with junior collec- tors under the age of fifteen years displaying their favourite toys of yesterday and today. Each year proceeds from the ABCA responds to tetter easy to understand. Many of the changes to the SMP were a direct result of the excellent public input received on the first draft of the SMP. Litigation is the system used in Ontario to provide interpretation when two parties disagree with the interpretation of a by-law or regula- tion. Mr. Burgess's was one such case. Shoreline management planning is "not going away" as ref- erenced in the arti- cle because the - government was giverf a man- date by the general public after the severe, life threatening storms in 1985 and 1986 which destroyed homes and eroded property values. -'l'he Ministry of Natural Resowtes currently has a policy for shoreline hazards and the province is now fine tuning this policy for incorpo- ration into the Planning Act. Mr. Burgess is correct in his com- ments supporting the proposal to have shoreline management incor- porated into municipal by-laws with the ABCA providing a con- sultive role in the implementation of the plan. This delivery method was one of the changes made in the second draft of the SMP and will streamline the approval process for the landowner. As community based watershed agencies whose Board of Directors are appointed by the local,munici- palities, conservation authorities are accountable, serve the interests of the member municipalities and One Foot in the Furr.war Most farmers across Ontario heaved a huge sigh of relief last month after Treasurer Floyd Laughren tabled his budget. The agricultural community had already been hit hard a few weeks before the budget was brought down with the news that the New Liskeard College of Agricultural Technology and the Centralia Col- lege of Agricultural Technology would be closed. The loss of these two colleges could mean a great deal in years to come. I, personally, believe that closing New Liskeard is a myopic move. Closing Centralia, too, means that many farmers from that wonderful - isruce-Huron-Grey-Middlesex area *ill send their children some place else. Most of Northern Ontario is use- less for farming but there are ma- jor pockets of wonderful land which has enough heat units for most crops grown in Ontario to thrive. That, I believe, is why the New Liskeard College was. arigi- y established.-And.t�$ - tion continues to eat many wonder- ful acres of iand in southern Ontario, we will need all the arable land we can find in future years. Stopping the manner in which cities and towns eat up good farm land is next to impossible. I have not seen any recent figures but all anyone has to do is look at the way the new subdivisions keep spread- ing like cancer across southern On- tario is enough to prove that those acres are lost forever. Nobody but a handful of con- cerned farmers seems to be speak- ing up for green, growing things when it comes to preserving farm- land. At one time, it was said that farmland was disappearing at the rate of 50 acres every hour of the day but that was back when urban sprawl was in its hay -day. Expan- sion is still going on but it has show go towards various charitable I organizations. Last years proceeds went to the Perth County Children's Aid Society, St. John's Ambulance, and the Canadian Red Cross Socie- ty. Each of the above organizations received a cheque of $300. What can you expect to see at the show? There will be lots of old original farm toys, some still in their original boxes, along with re- stored toys all produced over the last thirty or forty years. There will be toys of all sizes and related items...old toys, new toys, custom built toys, pedal tractors, toy banks, construction, toys, parts and a Ca- nadian farm toy magazine tell repre- sented at the Festival City Farm Toy Show. In addition there is a contest for custom and scratch built farm toy models. For more information con- tact Ralph Jolley at (519) 538-3000 or 538-2754. Show organizers have already booked close to 100 different tables of toy exhibits for the show to date with room for 125 tables in total! For further infatuation on the farm toy show contact- Tractor Classics at (519) 291-1656 or The Parts Shop at (519) 669-5079 or Kim Heinmiller at (519) 893-0468 or. Darryl Sykes (519) 348-9177. slowed considerably. It is still prevalent, mind you, and all that land is now filled with ticky-tacky houses, malls and super malls, miles of parking lots and schoolyards, much of it with that arable soil either moved for front lawns or hidden forever under inches of putrid asphalt. Many farmers, before the budget came down, feared their fuel tax re- funds might be withdrawn or their retail sales tax exemptions on farm trucks, drainage tile and even grain storage bins, would be lost. A couple of honeymen I know were afraid they would lose any com- pensation when bears raided bee hives but Laughren left them alone. They can also still get compensa- tion when some stupid hunter guns down a farm animal. They thought they might lose that, too. All farmers, though, will still have to pay that hefty income tax grab imposed by the NDP budget. What seems so aggravating about all this is that the new budget will not eliminate the huge deficit; it will only cut the deficit. If we could all see the light at the end of the tunnel with all these tax grabs, we might be able to bear them with a little more equanimity. However, these measures will only lower the deficit, not eliminate it. Those many farmers who had banks and other lending institutions foreclose on them during the last decade must look at the govern- ment and shake their heads in dis- gust about the way tax money is being handled. 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