From the boreal forest to the tundra; from the Prairie grasslands to Ontario’s Carolinian woodlands, Canada is stunningly rich with flora and fauna. Bio-diversity is our most valuable heritage. With 71,000 species which have been scientifically described and another estimated 69,000 * species yet to be named and classified, it becomes crystalline that the protection of our ecological heritage is absolutely paramount.
One of the early engineering marvels of the New World was undertaken when in the 1700s when Acadian farmers built dykes around 5000 hectares of salt marshes on the Bay of Fundy, effectively gaining them back from the ocean. The
Maple sugar-making was an important social activity for the indigenous peoples
The Reverend F.W.Clarke gave the first lectures on bee-keeping at the University of Guelph in the late 1800’s.
The Atlantic Giant Pumpkin is the grand-daddy of all giant pumpkins holding the present day record of over 1,300 lbs.
Tasting like a cross between maple syrup and molasses, it’s great in gingerbread. Sap from both birch and maple trees is harvested to make alcoholic beverages
Saskatchewan accounts for nearly half the world’s supply of mustard seed
Canadians can pride themselves with being among the best growers of mustard. Much of our seed is harvested on the Prairies, ground into “mustard flour” in Saskatchewan and Ontario then shipped to France from where we love to buy it back,
Since this is the home of both the Atlantic Giant Squash and the Atlantic Giant Pumpkin and since Canada is renowned for its paddling experiences, a group of somewhat wacky business people decided to have a pumpkin race!
In the Halifax Farmers Market, the stones are worn up the stairs and through the hallways…parts of the building were constructed in 1830 as Keith’s Brewery. Some families have been coming to market longer than records show. This is the
It may be romantic to think that the earliest Europeans came for furs to clothe the fashionistas of the day. They didn’t. They came for fish
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