Neil Banks & Families

“Our grandchildren are seventhgeneration farmers,” says Gale Banks of the farm she and husband Neil call home. Neil has spent the past 45 years specializing in the care and harvest of sweet corn – a local staple –and his 100-acre vegetable garden supplies countless markets in nearby communities. Providing local people with access to nutritious, flavourful produce is a privilege the Banks family doesn’t take for granted. Neil and Gale find that the buy local movement reinforces the notion that “farmers are the backbone of this country.”