BarrieToday welcomes letters to the editor at [email protected]. Please include your full name, daytime phone number and address (for verification of authorship, not publication). The following letter from Barrie resident Sharon Brown is about the future of the Greenbelt in Ontario.
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As more and more people flock to southern Ontario, the Greenbelt development looks like an easy solution, but we must remember that we have to feed people and that takes land suitable for growing things and adequate daylight and growing season.
You don't have to go very far north of Highway 400 before you will find the conditions for growing begin to shrink. Daylight decreases and, with it, productivity.
Building on this land will make feeding our growing population increasingly difficult.
Ask anyone trying to grow a garden in Muskoka how the shorter days and rocky soil effect their success.
Once this land is built on, it is forever lost to food production.
Sure, the developers are licking their chops at the money they can make building on it, but when it is gone, it is lost for food production forever.
Sharon Brown
Barrie
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