Flower Greenhouses and Onion Growers
A short trip from the airport hotel strip took us to Newmarket and from there the city seemed to disappear as we drove down a few back roads to the Holland Marsh. There have been canals created to drain the marsh and make it into the fertile farming ground it is now. On the trip to the greenhouses we crossed over the canals and more often then not there were small community hockey games occuring. It was so well - parrire-ish. It was someone else on my trip who pointed out that Agriculture really was that an entire sub-culture. It is one that I really would like to understand better.For example today we stopped at there flower greenhouses that used migrant workers from Mexico. Usually I am fairly opposed to the program the Canadian government has set-up especially when Ag. has special rules that allow people to ignore the 40 hour work week. But, their employees kept coming back - they have had the same employees for 5-6 years. That has to count for something - I must research this more before I comment further.
We also learned that the money always seems to be going somewhere else. Usually the middle man and usually that middle man is the packer. They key now is to look and see where is the product is grown and where it is packed! This means that the farmer who packages their own produce is making more than one who isn't - also there is greater accountability because if they pack those veggies you know you are getting theirs. There are no gaurentees with any of the packing houses.
posted by Angela @ 8:23 p.m.
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