Your Rural Ontario

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Published on Tuesday, 12 March 2013 12:16

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Melancthon Landscape is Posted on TVO Agenda website

What is rural Ontario? Is it a Statistics Canada definition? Is it a culture? Is it farmland that is gradually being swallowed by suburban sprawl? When we talk about rural Ontario are we sure that we're all referring to the same place? We’d like to know what you think rural Ontario is.

J.D. Black's potato field, Melancthon

Photos by Natalia Shields

I entered the Melancthon Potato Field Tree into the prestigious annual SNAP photography competition and fundraiser for ACT and it was accepted for the Silent Auction.... I was surprised by the emotional response that viewers had to the photo. An old maple tree standing guard over a humble potato field... Perhaps the recent anti mega quarry battle served to remind us that Ontario farmland is important and we came very close to losing a huge tract of that precious land. --Natalia from Toronto

The anti megaquarry fight in Melancthon Township over the past 2 years inspired me to join the group Artists VS the Megaquarry... As a photographer and a farmer's daughter, I felt it was my cause as well... the bottom line is all farmers in Ontario are engaged in the same endeavour...to produce food for Ontarians. That endeavour creates connections not only between all the farm communities but also with their urban neighbours who enjoy the food they produce. --Natalia from Toronto

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