Purple Daze Lavender Farm – An unexpected turn

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...

Farming in the middle of the big city

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...