As Ontario agriculture evolves, a new story is unfolding across rural landscapes, where firms like ERA Architects are helping property owners find renewed purpose for historic farmsteads through adaptive reuse and agritourism.
“It’s really the idea of unlocking the potential of these sites to allow for their future,” says Shelley Ludman, associate at ERA. “Over the years, we’ve developed a very deep understanding of the farmstead typology, and the makeup of those sites. There’s always a barn, there’s often a silo, there’s surrounding landscape — and I think at the root of a lot of our work is understanding the components, how they relate to each other… and how all of that can be reimagined.”
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Cambium Farms | Photography by Nathan Cyprys
