Farm Crawl Hamilton shows consumers where their food begins

Do you know where your food comes from? Farm Crawl Hamilton hopes after today, the answer is yes. Residents and visitors got to visit 12 farms in our city with guided tours and activities at each.

Fifteen years ago, a few local farmers in Hamilton got together and thought, how do we get the public to understand what we do and to consider local farms as an option to buy groceries? Then Farm Crawl Hamilton was born.

Chris Krucker has been a farmer for over 30 years. He says small farms like his rely on selling retail directly to the consumer. As a way to grow awareness and a customer base, Farm Crawl was created at no cost to the farmer to participate. In fact, they get a stipend to help offset the cost of hosting visitors.

“People come to the farm, they get to have interaction with livestock, they get to hear directly from the farmer,” Krucker said.

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