199 - Ted Presant (The Village of Riverside Glen)

Bridging the Social Distance · Apr 5, 2022 · 57m

For this episode I interview Ted Presant, a resident at The Village of Riverside Glen. Ted's life story covers a huge history of farming in the region. Some of his family members attended Guelph Ontario Agricultural College all the way back in the 1910s. Ted shares the story of his grandfather starting a farm in the Blenheim/Chatham area, the "Heart of the Golden Acres" circa 1913, supported by Ted's dad (who attended the OAC to specialize in Horticulture) and Ted's uncles and Aunts. Born in Chatham in 1930 Ted grew up on that farm too, until the return of his cousins and his older brother…