Profiles
Jeff Allen received a mid-August visit from some of his customers. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Nova Scotia berry grower Greg Webster believes that the four main factors influencing berry crop success are variety selection, field management, irrigation technology developments and pest management. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Trial and error is how Kent and Cindy Thompson made their first foray into strawberry production – along with some helpful advice from a berry extension specialist. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
April – that wonderful month full of promise. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
That was painless,” Ontario’s reigning grape king Curtis Fielding said after an informal over-the-tasting-counter interview at his family winery last November. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The latest Focus on Tomato presentation features considerations and best practices for California’s processing tomato industry. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
A fixture in Nova Scotia’s apple industry for more than 70 years, J.W. Mason and Sons has been forced into bankruptcy. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
This innovative greenhouse project in Chatham-Kent will create up to 90 local jobs, strengthen the local economy and help the environment... Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Over the past year, there’s been a surge in the number of visitors to Quinn Farm (la ferme Quinn), Montrealers’ treasured rural oasis established in 1982 on nearby Ile Perrot, Que. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
It is a risky business operating a vineyard in a cool climate, according to Matthew Speck, vice-president of viticulture at Henry of Pelham Family Estate Winery in St. Catharines, Ont. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The agriculture industry, like all other sectors, requires lots of fresh ideas and novel thinking to keep it profitable and vibrant on an ongoing basis. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
North American strawberry growers spent two days in mid-August visiting some of Nova Scotia’s best berry farmers. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The eighth edition of the "Faces of Farming" calendar has been unveiled, featuring the theme of - Real Farmers with Real Heart. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
A farmer from NWT has harvested 30,000 pounds of the vegetable this year from his farm about 130 kilometres south of the Arctic Circle. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
The competition at the Ontario apple cider contest remains fierce with strong competitors perfecting the right blend to please the palates of judges and consumers alike. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
In a perfect world, six Golden Apple Awards would have been presented at the 2012 Nova Scotia Fruit Growers’ Association’s annual convention to Cynthia, Douglas, Aylesa, Janelle, Angela and Jennifer. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
It was lucky number 13 for Curtis Millen of Little Dyke, N.S. The East Coast strawberry producer was recently awarded the 13th annual RBC Horticulture Nova Scotia Innovator of the Year Award during Horticulture Nova Scotia’s annual conference. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
New plantings and new players in the Annapolis Valley tree fruit industry were prominently featured during the Nova Scotia Fruit Growers’ Association (NSFGA) annual orchard tour Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
LaHave Forests of Northfield, N.S., is believed to have established North America’s largest haskap orchard in 2011, planting 25,000 seedlings on 25 acres in Lunenburg County. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!
Fiddleheads – delicious wild vegetables much beloved in the regional cuisine of Maritime Canada – also appear to offer a nutritional bonanza. Add to Facebook Like this? Tweet it to your followers!