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Just north Bayfield liesa
secret garden - a garden where
summer the air is filled with
the fragrance of fres, organi-
cally -grown herbs and butter-
flies .and. 'hummingbirds fly
freely about.
Located just off of Huron
County Road la, Secret Garden.
Herbs, owned and operated by
onnie Johnson, provides six,
and -a -half acres of herbs and
garlic. The garden allows visi-
tors to wander amongst the
herbs and pick what they want.
Johnson also sells her produce
wholesale to local restaurants
and grocerystores.
Last year, the farm became
•certified organic, which means
there have been no chemical
inputs intothe corps for a mini-
mum of three years. Johnson
said they have been farming
organic for about six years now.
She said there is now a bid
ger` market for organically
grown products here, adding
that organically grown food has
been popular. in Europe for a
number of years. Organically
grown food is good for people
with food and environmental
allergies, she noted.
It wasabout three years ago
that .Johnson said she became
interested growing herbs. She
and her husband had been farm-
ing .beef cattle and she said "the
money was too up and,
down..,,We were tired of the
uncertainty." Though they had
always had a small garden, with
no cattle, she said they had
more land .to use for organic
.cash crop.
"I've _:always been planting
Inusual things," said Johnson,
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Bonnie Johnston looks over Sonne of the herbs in her
herb garden Johnson runs Secret Garden Herbs just
north of Bayfield. (Amy Neilands photo)
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