Watermelon & Friends at Broadfork Farms
On a sunny autumn day, we pulled up next to an old wooden farmhouse in Nova Scotia. To our right, beyond a wall of stacked firewood, was a group of people sitting in the shade, eating watermelon.
Island Forest Foods
Though they are both born and raised islanders, I first met Marcia and Darcy Beck many years ago in Halifax. She was getting her business degree, and he was completing an English/History/Education degree. Fast forward a few years, and they are now two of the co-founders of Canada’s first commercial-scale permaculture farm in Brookvale, PEI.