This year’s free Round the County Agriculture tour in Chatham-Kent is Sunday.
The Kent Federation of Agriculture organizes the free tour and this year has 44 farms or agriculture businesses including orchards, a corn maze and beef farms. The tour highlights participants in the new Buy Local! Buy Fresh! Chatham-Kent Map.
It’s a self-guided tour and it runs from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Copies of the map are in libraries and at some farm businesses and also online at buylocalbuyfreshchathamkent.com.
For those looking for stops near Essex County, the Chatham-Kent tour includes Loop Fisheries in Wheatley and Adel Farms in Tilbury, a vegetable farm with gourds, squash and pumpkins.
There’s no tour in Essex County but if you’re looking to buy local, the Essex County Federation of Agriculture has its own map at www.ecfa.ca.
