Our clients are growing agriculture in Nova Scotia.
There’s no end to the different ways that our clients have put Farm Loan Board products to work. Whether the start of a new operation, expansion of farming program, bringing in new technology, or innovation in value-add products, our clients have turned their ambitions and aspirations into concrete growth and improvement. You can learn more about our clients’ projects, and how the Loan Board helped with their growth, by exploring their stories below.
Clients & News
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Nova Scotia Farm is Gardening Powerhouse for Loblaws and Home Depot
Full Story: Nova Scotia Farm is Gardening Powerhouse for Loblaws and Home DepotIf 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 […]
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Looking for an Opportunity to Serve Your Community?
Full Story: Looking for an Opportunity to Serve Your Community?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 […]
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Fifth Generation Farm Built to Last Another Five
Full Story: Fifth Generation Farm Built to Last Another FiveYou 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 […]
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Grand Pré Herb Garden a Sensory Delight
Full Story: Grand Pré Herb Garden a Sensory DelightIt 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 […]
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Bringing Good Drink and Tuscan Taste to Windsor
Full Story: Bringing Good Drink and Tuscan Taste to WindsorOnly 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 […]
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Farm Loan Board helping Nova Scotia farmer grow produce year-round
Full Story: Farm Loan Board helping Nova Scotia farmer grow produce year-roundThe den Haan family has been producing fresh, greenhouse-grown produce for Atlantic Canada families ever since Dutch immigrant Jac den Haan founded den Haan’s Greenhouses in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley in 1963. Three generations in and Jac’s grandson […]