A passion for eating well and a love for the land is driving a surge in female farmers in B.C.
After a successful 33-year professional career in festival event management in Victoria, Ramona Froehle-Schacht decided 12 years ago it was time to pursue a different path. Now, she’s the proud owner of SOL Farm, a five-acre property in North Cowichan, B.C., where she spends her day nurturing her crops of pickling cucumbers, bouquet flowers, tomatoes and berries.
The proportion of female farmers in B.C. is higher than any other province — 37.5 per cent versus the national average of 28.7 per cent — according to the 2016 Census of Agriculture. The Statistics Canada report also noted that B.C. had the largest proportion of small farms at 42 per cent, almost half of which sell directly to the public.
It’s that passion and love for the land that is driving more women to dump their lucrative careers and move into the demanding world of agriculture, said Ryan Riese national director of agriculture at Royal Bank of Canada in Calgary.
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