Canada's Outdoor Farm Show - Rotational Grazing Demo
2026-09-17 10:00 - 10:30, 2026-09-17 14:00 - 14:30 (America/Toronto) | Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show
Join Tim Prior at Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show for a demonstration of the rotational grazing technologies Brussels Agri Services has to offer.
Date(s): Sept 15, 16, and 17
Time(s): 10:00 am and 2:00 pm Daily
Attendees will need to purchase a ticket to Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show to attend this event.
Canada’s Outdoor Farm Show – Rotational Grazing Demo is an OSCIA recognized Knowledge Sharing Event (KSE) for farmers with On-Farm Climate Action Fund (OFCAF) projects in the Rotational Grazing category.

Fieldwalker 2026 Sandbox Field Day
2026-09-18 09:30 - 14:00 | Formosa, ON, Address Provided w/ Registration, Formosa, Ontario, N0G2S0, Canada
Fieldwalker 2026 Sandbox Field Day: Dialing in crop nutrition plans and application along with a
tillage demonstration
9:30 AM – 2 PM, a final agenda will be distributed shortly.
Jonathan Zettler, CPA, CMA, CCA-ON
Key Details:
• Location – Formosa (meal) and local fields to Formosa, ON
• Date – Friday, September 18, 2026, ~9 am Coffee to 2 pm
• Lunch – Pineridge BBQ
Sandbox (noun): a place, area, or environment that provides opportunities for variation and
experimentation in a way suggestive of children playing in a sandbox
Why Sandbox?
Many have learned more through play and hands on learning than other methods and feel this
best reflects where learning, interested and fun meet.
Current speaker lineup:
• Jonathan Zettler, Fieldwalker Agronomy
• David Simard, Metos Canada
• Travis Grubb, Kubota Canada
• Taylor Jeffery, Yara Canada
Topics/Stations:
• Weather Station/Weather Data/SWAT Water – How to use it as an in-season decision aid when
it comes to nitrogen rates, how leaf sensors can measure plant stress/crop response to
environmental conditions.
• Soil Sampling Methodology – P&K Grid vs SWAT vs Split depth sample (reduced tillage fields);
Nitrate sampling by landscape position – what’s in a nitrate test, how does it vary by landscape
position, what do the numbers mean?
• Nitrogen sources and the nitrogen cycle – a pound of N is not a pound of N!
• Managing soil compaction with the Kubota CU – working long term no-till/strip till fields – good,
the bad and the ugly
There is a small nominal fee of $25, mainly to ensure the people attending want to participate
and contribute to this type of event. A portion of this fee is donated to 4-H Ontario.
To participate, drop Jonathan Zettler an email by clicking on the link below or at jz@fieldwalker.ca.
Payment – if you are an existing Fieldwalker customer I’ll invoice your account. If not, you can etransfer $25 to jz@fieldwalker.ca. RSVP by August 30th, 2026 for food!
*This event is recognized as OSCIA OFCAF KSE under BMP category Nitrogen Management

Seed Farming & Farmer-Led Research at Persephone Market Garden and Luna Mia Farm
2026-09-26 10:00 - 16:00 | Persephone Market Garden, 241063 Concession 3 Keppel, Allenford, Ontario, N0H 1A0, Canada
A full day tour of two seed saving farms with EFAO farmer-researchers? Sign us up!
Join Kristine Hammel of Persephone Market Garden and Rony Lec of Luna Mia Farm in Grey-Bruce to hear more about their seed and vegetable production and farmer-led research.

We will start the morning at Persephone Market Garden, run by Kristine Hammel and Thorsten Arnold. They have been farming on this land for 17 years. Kristine will lead a tour of the market garden, which includes a growing seed garden and an expanding native seed orchard. She’ll share some of her motivations, challenges and joys with growing seed on contract, alongside a fresh vegetable CSA. Kristine is also a long time no till practitioner who using switch grass straw mulch in her gardens. Following the tour, participants can enjoy their packed picnic lunch with soup from Kristine before travelling to Luna Mia Farm.

In the afternoon, we will see Luna Mia Farm, run by Rony Lec and Myriam Legualt who have been farming and seed saving for 20 years. Rony and Myriam ran the Mesoamerican Permaculture Institute together in Guatemala for many years then moved to Canada and started a regenerative farm. Today, they continue to use regenerative practices based on traditional knowledge, save their open-pollinated seeds, and share about their lessons learned along the way. Participants will join Rony and Myriam for a farm tour with a focus on traditional grain and seed crops.

Agenda for the day:
Arrive to Persephone Market Garden: 9:45-10 (241063 Concession 3 Keppel, Allenford)
Tour Persephone Market Garden: 10-12
Bring you own picnic lunch: 12-1
Drive to Luna Mia: 1-1:30(135038 Concession Road 8 RR 1, Desboro)
Tour Luna Mia: 1:30-3:30
Departures: 3:30-4
Please visit the EFAO event website to register and purchase tickets.

This event is funded in part by the Governments of Canada and Ontario under the Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership, a federal-provincial-territorial initiative.
Funding for the project has also been provided by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada under the Agricultural Climate Solutions – Living Labs program and by the following partners: Beef Farmers of Ontario, Dairy Farmers of Ontario, Grain Farmers of Ontario, Ontario Federation of Agriculture, Ontario Pork and Ontario Sheep Farmers. The project is coordinated by the Ontario Soil and Crop Improvement Association.
