WELLINGTON COUNTY – A Wellington County ag program is making waves on a large scale, being recognized in this month’s issue of a popular magazine.
Experimental Acres, our regenerative agriculture programme, is featured in January’s @MunicipalWorld! It’s also selected as a finalist for an @edco1edco Award of Excellence in Rural Economic Development.
Learn more at https://t.co/Ornf4dyw2o. https://t.co/kYQAK5xLUt
— County of Wellington (@wellingtncounty) January 8, 2025
Experimental Acres works to support farms in their transition to regenerative agriculture. The program’s lead, and the county’s ag coordinator Jordan Grigg, explains the “experimental” portion of the name means involved farms try something new on a portion of their farm and make comparisons.
Grigg added the magazine, Municipal World featuring Experimental Acres in January, was a big coup in the economic development world.
Success stories for Experimental Acres span county-wide and even into Dufferin and Grey Counties.
The initiative strives to show that regenerative agriculture can be practiced “in as many ways as there are farms.”
Also being named finalist for an economic development award, Grigg expressed nothing but gratefulness regarding what she says is a crucial initiative.
Grigg hopes to add to the list of counties where Experimental Acres has worked, which currently includes the counties of Wellington, Dufferin and Grey.
She says the project utilizes a small portion of land to try out new and sustainable ag methods.
Success stories locally include a lavender farm in Arthur and a Cidery in Erin.
The program wants to help farms when they’re trying out practices that can impact the county’s climate emissions.
They give out small grants to these farms, and Grigg says these grants are typically three-thousand dollars or less.
She encourages farms interested in joining, from any municipality, to head to the Experimental Acres website where applications are open until January 19th.
