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Whippletree Farm
1515 Highway 201RR1
Annapolis Royal, NS B0S 1A0
E-mail: info(at)whippletreefarm.ca
Phone: (902) 532-0484
Whippletree Farm
1515 Highway 201RR1
Annapolis Royal, NS B0S 1A0
E-mail: info(at)whippletreefarm.ca
Phone: (902) 532-0484
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| Stewart Fotheringham |
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| Nicole Burkhard |
We have been living and working on farms in rural Nova Scotia for several years, and are thrilled to finally have our own farm to call home in Round Hill. We first came to the province from Quebec and Ontario in 2005 for Nicole to do her Masters degree in organic agriculture at the Nova Scotia Agricultural College. Food, the environment and social justice have long been important to us, and farming encompasses all of these things. We are part of a new generation of farmers who weren't raised on farms, but have a passion for hard work, living in rural communities and being involved with what we eat and how it's raised. We are starting from scratch, learning along the way and trying to make the world a better place one acre at a time...
One very important aspect of our farm is that we use draft horses. Stewart found his way to horse farming through using horses in the woods to harvest logs in a sustainable way. Trained as a woodworker and wooden boat-builder, he was interested in sourcing his own wood (as opposed to buying tropical hardwoods or local wood from clearcut forests). This led him to a horse-logging apprenticeship at Haliburton Forest in Ontario. Now he incorporates horse work in the fields in the spring, summer and fall, and uses the horses to haul firewood and lumber from our woodlot in the winter.
Our team of draft horses, Deedee and Stormy, are Suffolk Punches, which is an endangered breed of work horse in Canada. They originated in Suffolk County, England and were know as a quintessential farm work horse. If you'd like to know more about this breed and other rare breeds of farm animals, visit www.rarebreedscanada.ca/index.htm and www.suffolkpunch.com.
We also are proud members of:
Slow Food Nova Scotia - slowfoodns.blogspot.com
Atlantic Canadian Organic Regional Network (ACORN) - www.acornorganic.org
Canadian Organic Growers (COG) - www.cog.ca
Ecology Action Centre (EAC) - www.ecologyaction.ca
