Farming in the urban shadow in Waterloo, Ontario

Urban farm pressure. A combine harvests wheat off Fischer-Hallman Road in Kitchener. As Kitchener’s suburbs have grown outward, the once-quiet countryside has become a busy suburb. Photo by David Bebee. “Urbanization forces farmers to become land speculators, even the ones that don’t want to be,” By Greg Mercer, Record staff Jan 06 2012 Excerpt: Flourishing…