Woodleigh Farms
Woodleigh Farms is growing a sustainable future through innovative farming practices
The Township of Cavan Monaghan farm's award-winning pilot project is transforming waste wood into a carbon-sequestering soil amendment
Woodleigh Farms is not just growing crops for today, but growing a sustainable future through innovative farming practices – including one that sequesters carbon while improving soil quality and reducing the need for fertilizer for generations to come.
Located in the Township of Cavan Monaghan, one of Peterborough County’s eight townships, Woodleigh Farms is a sixth-generation family farm first settled in 1902. Now under the direction of Norm Lamothe and his family, Woodleigh Farms grows soy, wheat, oat, and corn, produces maple syrup, sells firewood and hay, raises livestock, and operates a market garden and year-round passive solar greenhouse.
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