Date: January 10, 2022
Four new Virtual Reality Tours, filmed throughout 2021 on mushroom, veal and grain farms – and genomics research facilities operated by the University of Guelph – have been added to the FarmFood 360 website, joining the 18 farm and food processing tours already filmed and available for viewing.
The tours were developed by Farm & Food Care Ontario in partnership with Good in Every Grain, Mushrooms Canada, Ontario Genomics and Veal Farmers of Ontario. Using 360° cameras and virtual reality technology, the award-winning FarmFood360° website gives Canadians the chance to tour real, working farms and food processing plants, all without putting on boots or biosecurity clothing.
The new virtual tours were funded, in part, through the AgriCompetitiveness program of the Canadian Agricultural Partnership, a federal, provincial, territorial initiative. A new educator resource is in development by Agriculture in the Classroom Canada and will be live in February, 2022, providing curriculum-based classroom activities for each tour.
- Find out how mushrooms are grown: https://www.farmfood360.ca/en/mushroom-farms/
- Learn how veal cattle are fed and cared for: https://www.farmfood360.ca/en/veal/
- Follow a soybean farm from planting through to harvest: https://www.farmfood360.ca/en/ontario-grain-farms/
- Learn about genomic research in agriculture: https://www.farmfood360.ca/en/genomics-in-agriculture/