by Ella Lentz
The Newport 4-H Club traces its roots back to the Brooklyn Heifer Club, which was formed in 1924 and was one of the first active 4-H clubs in Hants County, Nova Scotia. Our club officially became known as the Newport 4-H Club in 1953 through the guidance of Nova Scotia’s agriculture department and club leaders Lawrence and Graham Greenough. It offered Holstein, Ayrshire, and later, beef projects to members.

by Kathy Birt
The Redcliffe Road in Hampton, P.E.I., leads the way to a peaceful field of young haskap shrubs that Mike Cassidy hopes will lead the charge to a sustainable new crop for Island farmers looking for an alternative. Growing haskap berries was on the top of his list when Cassidy purchased VanKampen’s Greenhouses Ltd. in Charlottetown last December.

by Rachael Cheverie
Wireworm – old pest, new problems. We have seen a resurgence of wireworm populations in Nova Scotia (and surrounding provinces) in the last 10 years. It used to be that wireworm was only an issue in fields that had been in sod for many years and only for a year or two after they started being used for row crops.

by Matthew Carlson
The Newfoundland and Labrador Young Farmers’ Forum (NLYFF) is once again taking to social media to raise awareness of local food production, farming as a career, and farmers in the community. The Young Farmer of the Week program is back on social media this spring and summer.