Stuart Chutter flipped through a popular weekly publication for farmers, excited to read the story featuring diversity at his small operation in print. "The story was missing the gay element, the aspect of the story of being a gay farmer and what that means for diversity in farming wasn't there," Chutter said. He sees parallels between the need for diversity in plants to build healthy soils with the need for diverse farmers in order to create healthy rural communities. Stuart Chutter operates a small grazing livestock farm just south of Melville. He had never known a gay farmer throughout the first three decades of his life.

Source: CBC News September 23, 2020 21:30 UTC