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Canada

From feeding ‘food deserts’ to attracting big grocery, indoor farming taking off in N.B.

Inside a shuttered grocery store in the small community of Blacks Harbour, about 70 kilometres west of Saint John, leafy…

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Tech

Even gardens have a carbon footprint. Here’s how to reduce the climate impact of urban farming

Urban gardening might seem fairly innocuous when it comes to its overall carbon footprint, but when compared to conventional agriculture,…

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Lifestyle

Farming inside a mall: Guelph, Ont. duo pairs agriculture with urban surroundings

A Guelph, Ont. duo has brought agriculture to the city’s downtown core by starting a farm inside the Old Quebec…

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Halifax

Young and bravely farming sheep in Nova Scotia’s Wallace Bay

It’s been two years of bad prices and then a summer where  the rain rarely let up long enough to…

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Canada

Poilievre works to ratchet up pressure on Liberals to pass farming carbon tax carve-out

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is calling for a “massive pressure campaign” to push the governing Liberals to help pass a…

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Nova Scotia

Meet the Nova Scotians on the frontiers of farming kelp

In a darkened garage down a long driveway in the community of Lower West Pubnico, N.S., spools of twine sit in a…

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Nova Scotia

Firing pumpkins a kilometre and other lessons in Nova Scotia farming

“I’m not sure of the distance, but it’ll fire a pumpkin a kilometre anyway,” said Blake Jennings. The largest pumpkin…

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Entertainment

Haldimand man uses TikTok to hook folks on farming

Forget webinars and Twitter — farmers looking to reach new audiences should get on TikTok. So says Hayden Fox, a…

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Halifax

Stolen Eggs, Farming Tools and Plants: Residents of Kings County are angry about increasing theft in rural areas

Residents of the Gaspereau Valley and Avonport areas are fed up with increasing crimes in the area, ranging from stolen…

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