Wilmot Orchards worked with Ontario Farmland Trust to put the farm into a 999-year easement, ensuring it remains agricultural land.
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Wilmot Orchard preserved for a millennium
Working with Ontario Farmland Trust, the farm has an 999 year easement to ensure it remains protected from urban development
Major strawberry plant producer changes hands
New owners get funding to buy Lareault business
The Quebec company billed as Canada’s largest producer of strawberry plants has picked up new ownership after nearly 70 years. Production Lareault, based on just over 450 acres at Lavaltrie, Que. — about 40 km northeast of Montreal, in the province’s Lanaudiere region — has been acquired by investors Antoine Casimir and Andrea Borodenko for […] Read more
Wilmot Orchards bests the blueberry odds with continued expansion
Farm sees 30,000 visitors a season and will have 37 acres in production by 2024
Nestled between Bowmanville and Newcastle on the Oak Ridges Moraine, Wilmot Orchards is not the traditional location for a blueberry operation. Charles Stevens bought Wilmot Orchards in 1975, a year before he graduated from the University of Guelph with a Bachelor of Science, when he planned a future of apple growing. When he and his […] Read more
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