Frank Meyers’ desperate battle to save his family farm from expropriation
Posted: April 13, 2013
Categories: Food in the News
Frank Meyers, an 84-year-old farmer, has received a letter from the federal Department of Justice informing him that the land he and his ancestors have worked and lived on for more than two centuries is no longer his.
The land will become a “no-go zone”, a new $300 million training ground for the Canadian military’s elite counter-terrorism unit Joint Task Force 2. Frank has lived on this land his entire life, and his family has been there since 1798. Their petitions, protests, and letters over the past six years have been disregarded.
Now Frank, under threat of reprisals, must move his 20 beef cattle, feed and equipment off the farm, take down the barns and outbuildings he constructed himself, and essentially eradicate 215 years of settlement.
Frank shares that “the government has other options, better options they can use. I’m feeding this country like other farms. Why is the government destroying it?” He goes on to further explain, “They don’t need this land. I say use up the old land, the land that’s no good that you can’t grow food on.”
This is a very brief summary of Paul Dalby’s article – Please share and read much more about Frank’s story here.