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Beaver Creek Natural Farm
Sathish Thangavel and Uma Mahalingam are the owners and operators of Beaver Creek Natural Farms in Tatamagouche. Sathish and Uma both grew up in India surrounded by agriculture. They moved […]
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Good Clean Farm
Working outside and being self-employed are two reasons Brendan Neima and Angharad Wylie love being farmers. They also get to learn about and use a lot of different skills, like plumbing and carpentry. Brendan and Angharad own and operate Good Clean Farm. It’s a small-scale farm located in Salmon River, Nova Scotia.
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Folly River Farm
The MacEacherns’ Located in Colchester County, Lauchie and Jolene MacEachern and their family own Folly River Farms. A dairy farm where the MacEachern’s milk 95 cows. They also grow forages, grains, and corn on 350 acres of land for livestock feed. They recently installed solar panels on the roof of their barn as well. Lauchie…
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MacRae’s Rocky Ridge Maple
Located on the top of Nuttby Mountain, Alec and Gayle MacRae started MacRae’s Rocky Ridge Maple farm as retirement hobby. The MacRae’s first started collecting sap as a family endeavor to have enough syrup for themselves but Alec and Gayle expanded once they retired. Having grown up on mixed farms in Colchester County, they were…
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Belcher Holsteins Ltd.
The Porter Family farms 900 acres of land in Lower Onslow and surrounding areas. They have 220 dairy cows, of which 85 are milking. The cows are mostly Holsteins but include Jerseys and Brown Swiss too. The land is used to grow grass forages, corn and barley which are used to feed the cows.
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That Dutchman’s Cheese Farm
Willem and Maja van den Hoek started That Dutchman’s Cheese Farm in 1980. They now work alongside their daughter Margaretha and son in law Charles, who are highly involved with managing and cheese production. The farm is located in Upper Economy, on the Fundy Shore. If you haven’t been, this place is a must see!…
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Millen Farms
Millen Farms is a family farm that was started from just a few strawberry plants. Today this farm business grows 200 acres of strawberries and 1200 acres of wild blueberries. Ann and Curtis are the owners of this operation, but they couldn’t do it alone. They have four sons, two who help run the farm…
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J&B Millen Farms
J&B Millen Farms was established by two brothers, Johnathan and Brandon Millen. They were just teenagers when they started their own operation. Johnathan and Brandon worked on their parent’s farm for as long as they could remember and that helped spear them to start a business of their own. J&B Millen Farms was officially incorporated…
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Bayview Poultry Farms Inc.
Blake and Rebecca Jennings of Bayview Poultry Farms Ltd. farm along side Blake’s father Glen. The farm is about 116 years old and the Jennings will be welcoming a new farm addition this year.
