Environment
Quebec City’s Disappearing Agricultural Land
As agricultural areas are snatched up and transformed into new housing developments, one farmer keeps fighting.
In his 65 years, Denis Bédard has watched a city grow up around his Quebec City family farm.
Beauport used to be a rural area home to dozens of vegetable farmers. “There was no urbanization at all,” says Bédard, owner of Ferme Bédard et Blouin. “The 1960s is when it all started.”