It’s been two years since the Wilmot residents learned of Waterloo Region’s plans to take control of 770 acres of prime farmland for a future mega-industrial site.
While the region has acquired much of the land, local activist Susanna Campton says the fight isn’t done just yet.
“It’s really not over. I know because it’s been quiet and because there have been some sales. It feels like the fight is done, and I think that it’s important to know that it’s not,” said Campton.
Her passion for protecting Ontario’s farmland has roots in her childhood, growing up on her parents’ cabbage farm in Wilmot. Her family’s farm was directly across the road from the land that the region was trying to acquire for the proposed industrial site.
