Having grown up on a small farm in Southern Ontario, I can appreciate how hard these people work. My father who gets up at 5:30am to go to his farm, then to his business, then comes home briefly for dinner, then goes back to his farm, then back to work again, who takes a one week vacation a year, is the hardest working man I know. Personally I find it rather sadistic of him; I have troubles making it to work by 9:00am. I'm more like a 9:08am type person. Regardless, these farmers work hard, and from what I gather from the protest, they receive very little appreciation.

I am still unclear of all the issues, so I tried to photograph as many of the protest signs as I could. I know that many of these farmers need to be willing to embrace technology and adopt new farming practices to be able to survive and compete. But I also know that we can do little things to help them, like buying local produce and meat.