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If you’re ready to start farming and looking for financial help and business advice, the new FarmNext program may help. FarmNext encourages new farmers to begin farming in Nova Scotia with business planning and coaching, interest rate financial benefits, and on-going...
Norfolk is not a place where you’d necessarily expect to find a hotbed of innovative entrepreneurship. Not only did a single crop dominate the area but growers, save those on the marketing board, had no hand in selling it. As long as it worked, it was a great...
A new project launched in April 2011 at the University of Regina will study how climate change will impact the Prairies, especially the agricultural and Indigenous communities. This five-year project, funded by the International Development Research Centre (IDRC)...
Tobacco’s demise not only hit farmers in the pocketbook but also threatened the fragile ecosystem of the productive, but highly erodible soil of the Norfolk sand plain. Hundreds of cedar hedgerows have been planted in the last half century, often sheltering fields of...
DARTMOUTH, N.S. – Growing up in Chicago, Illinois, Jean Snow would hardly have seen herself becoming a leading urban market gardener in Eastern Canada in later years. Yet that’s exactly what happened. “I had no agricultural background,” says...
