Large Flock Operators Summer Tour
August 7 @ 9:00 am – 5:00 pm
A full day on Amherst Island connecting producers with industry experts — a working sheep farm tour, presentations on farm management and financial literacy, and a feature talk on soil health and farmer wealth.
$50 per ticket. Lunch is available on-site from local food trucks at your own expense.
Hosted by the Ontario Large Flock Operators with support from the Ontario Soil Network at Footflats Farm, Amherst Island — Friday, August 7, 2026.
Event Details
Date: Friday, August 7, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Location: Footflats Farm, 570 Front Rd, Stella, ON K0H 2S0 (Amherst Island)
Cost: $50 per ticket (lunch not included)
About the Day
An opportunity to connect with producers and industry experts to share knowledge and drive operational success. Footflats Farm operators Gayla Bonham-Carter and Scott Bade manage a flock of New Zealand Coopworth ewes using rotational grazing, electric fencing, and a Prattley mobile handling system. Come for the field tour, stay for the presentations, and connect with other producers and specialists in the field.
Featured Speaker — Peter Byck (sponsored by the Ontario Soil Network)
Peter Byck is helping lead a $10-million research project comparing Adaptive Multi-Paddock (AMP) grazing with conventional grazing — working with 20 scientists and 10 farm families on soil health, soil carbon, greenhouse-gas cycling, biodiversity, and water cycling. He is the director of the docuseries Roots So Deep (you can see the devil down there) and the films carbon nation and carbon cowboys, and is a professor of practice at Arizona State University. His talk — Roots So Deep: Stories from Farmers and Scientists about Soil Health & Farmer Wealth — closes the day, followed by Q&A.
Agenda
9:00 AM — Registration
10:00 AM — Opening remarks
10:30 AM — Farm Management Canada presentation
11:30 AM — MNP: Financial literacy presentation
12:30 PM — Lunch (local food trucks, at your own expense)
2:00 PM — WSPS: Safety presentation
3:00 PM — Peter Byck: Roots So Deep — Soil Health & Farmer Wealth, plus Q&A
4:00 PM — Open networking
Presented in partnership with the Ontario Large Flock Operators, the Ontario Soil Network, Farm Management Canada, MNP, and WSPS.