Our clients are growing agriculture in Nova Scotia.

Wysmykal Farm is a small, certified organic market garden in Chapman Settlement on the Northumberland Strait. Charles Ryan and Jessy Wysmyk own and operate the farm growing and selling organic vegetables and fruit through a Community Shared Agriculture (CSA) program and, in season, at the Pugwash Farmers’ Market and the Sackville Farmers’ Market in New…

If you buy garden plants at any Loblaws or Home Depot store in the Maritimes, those plants were grown on a seven-acre farm in Brookfield, Nova Scotia. Forest Glen Greenhouses, run by Judy Thompson with her daughter Megan and son-in-law Jason Whidden, is the sole supplier for 70-plus Loblaws (Atlantic Superstore, No Frills, and Your…

Join us Serving on our Board of Directors is a great way to represent your community and share your knowledge and expertise of local agriculture or the agri-food business while supporting Agriculture in Nova Scotia. Our Board is made up of Nova Scotians with varying backgrounds connected to the agriculture industry: The Government of Nova…

You have to wonder if Shippy Spurr knew what he was getting his family into when cultivating his 62 acres in 1875, a farm whose humble beginnings can be traced back to a couple apple trees, today spanning about 1,000 acres. Shippy sowed his seeds in Melvern Square, Nova Scotia, first hay, grain and the…

It wasn’t enough that her garden was fruitful, turning out the raw ingredients for vinegars, wines, jellies and jams; it needed also to be a destination, a place not only to patronize, but to lose yourself. “I came here to create an edible landscape, to grow herbs and plant a garden. That’s what I’ve done.”…

Only ten years ago, in the shadow of Martock Mountain and surrounded on all sides by an apple orchard, there stood a few empty acres on which Glenn Dodge conceived an empire of grapes. Today, these ten acres host 7,000 plants, after considerable liming and subsoiling breathed life back into the land. These are marquette…