Peterborough County Agricultural Wall of Fame

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Joyce Pimmett-Millar (1927 – 2021)

Joyce Pimmett-Millar (1927 – 2021)

2024 , Inductees 🕔August 22, 2024

Agricultural pioneer Joyce Pimmett-Millar was raised and farmed in Otonabee Township. At age six, she began selling flowers and later sold eggs and poultry weekly at the Peterborough Farmers’ Market well into her nineties. She and her husband, Jack, raised

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Ross Steed (1937-2012),  Lois Steed (1941-2015)

Ross Steed (1937-2012), Lois Steed (1941-2015)

2019 , Inductees 🕔October 9, 2019

Ross and Lois purchased their Indian River farm in 1967.  Sugarvalley Maple became home to a maple syrup business, a maple supply company, a milking Holstein herd, a purebred Hereford herd, and cash crops. The maple syrup business grew from

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