by Joan LeBlanc
It’s cranberry harvest time again and it seems that the lack of rain during the growing season hasn’t affected this year’s crop yields at Coastal Cranberries in Dorchester, N.B. “We’re going to have a great crop this year if we can get a few days without rain to get it all harvested,” said Melvin Goodland in mid-October.

by Seth Freeman
The Hill ’n’ Dale 4-H Club was formed in 1961, with the first meeting held at Centre Consolidated School in Dayspring, N.S. That first meeting included 10 members, their parents, and George Mackenzie, the region’s provincial agriculture department 4-H representative. The club name Hill ’n’ Dale originated from a Mrs. Berringer, who took note of the many drumlins and valleys that could be found in Lunenburg County, otherwise known as hills and dales.

by Cedric MacLeod
As one travels about the Maritimes, the prevalence of the beef industry is not always immediately evident. Unless you are travelling through the reclaimed marshlands that join New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, which incidentally was home to more than 60,000 cows in the not too distant past, the average Maritimer might not realize that more than 1,800 farm families comprise the Maritime beef sector.