A symbolic flight for food and water

Posted August 22, 2013

Last Sunday’s Celebrate Food & Water First event culminated with a fly-by and landing by Bill Lishman, the ultralight pilot who famously led flocks of geese and storks on migratory routes throughout the United States.

Lately, Lishman has been fighting to preserve 18,600 acres of prime farmland that is slated to become the site of the new Pickering Airport. On Sunday, Lishman made a two-hour flight from those lands to Honeywood, symbolically linking land still under threat to the farmland saved from the now-defunct mega quarry proposal.

Attendees of the event also enjoyed a huge farmers’ market in the Honeywood Arena featuring lots of local produce and morsels prepared by several local chefs.

Above photo by Dan Sinclair.