A Chatham-Kent farm is now featured on a website offering virtual reality tours of fields and orchards in Canada.
The FarmFood360 website provides visitors with a collection of virtual tours that offer an up-close, interactive look at modern farming using state-of-the-art 360-degree cameras and virtual reality technology.
One of the newest tours is of the Pinsonneault family farm in Chatham-Kent, which shows how tomatoes are grown and harvested for processing. The tour highlights how growers use specialized equipment to plant and care for their crops; manage weather, pest, and disease challenges; and produce high-quality tomatoes for canned goods.
Viewers are able to follow each crop’s journey from planting to bloom, through to harvesting and processing, while hearing directly from the farmers who grow them.
The tour was funded in part by the federal government’s Sustainable Canadian Agricultural Partnership, the Agricultural Adaptation Council’s FarmFood360 program, along with the Ontario Processing Vegetable Growers and Conagra Brands.
FarmFood360 was first launched in 2016 and has since produced 29 farm tours that attract more than one million online visitors each year. To visit the website, click here.
