Environmental Protection: Ottawa and Quebec provide financial assistance to two farm businesses in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region

Quebec City, Quebec – Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada - The federal Minister of Agriculture and Agri-Food, Marie-Claude Bibeau, and the Quebec Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, André Lamontagne, announced that the Government of Canada and the Government of Quebec are providing up to $130,000 in financial assistance to two farm businesses in the Bas-Saint-Laurent region. This financial assistance is being provided through component 1, agri-environmental interventions by farm businesses, of the Quebec Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (MAPAQ) Prime-Vert program, under the Canada-Quebec Canadian Agricultural Partnership agreement. The objective of the Prime-Vert program is to help farm businesses and other stakeholders in the bio-food industry to work in a way that takes into consideration environmental protection, which is one of the fundamental principles of sustainable development.

 

Ferme la Ferme Berlégo in Sainte-Hélène-de-Kamouraska and Ferme Viplaine enr. in Saint-Arsène will each receive $65,000 in assistance for their respective projects to build animal waste storage facilities for next-generation businesses.

Video: Finally We Are On The Fields Planting Corn!

It seems like it was a long-time coming but we are finally on the fields planting corn. Cold, wet weather has made working the land and planting the first of our crops and difficult proposition but today we got at least one corn field done. Join us at Ewetopia Farms as we use old methods to get corn planted. This corn will feed our sheep for another year and heat our home!