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- Strawberry Growers Summer Bus Tour in Nova Scotia August 19-21
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- The North American Strawberry Growers Association (NASGA) will hold its summer bus tour in Nova Scotia, Canada Aug. 19-21. After a welcoming dinner on Sunday, Aug. 19, two full days of stops will take place.
Stops on Monday, Aug. 20
- • Glenn Hebb Farm, Bridgewater. This sixth generation family farm includes vegetables, apples, small fruit, cranberries, farm market and wholesale.
• Ross Farm Museum includes an on-site demonstration on how a farm in Nova Scotia was run in the 18th and 19th centuries.
• Blueberry Acres. This stop includes lunch as well as tour of high bush picking and fresh market packing facilities.
• Agriculture Canada Research Station, Kentville, a breeding center for strawberries, raspberries and other small fruit.
• Grand Pre’ Historic Park. This is the site where the Acadian (French) people in Nova Scotia were gathered together before deportation to several areas of the United States.
• Grand Pre’ Winery & Restaurant. This includes dinner and a tour of the winery.
Stops on Tuesday, Aug. 21
• Historic Gardens includes large landscaped display of trees and flowers.
• Fort Ann. Tour of first permanent English settlement in North America.
• Rolf Meyers Farm, one of the first farms in Nova Scotia to make wide use of plastic mulch and drip irrigation on vegetable crops. In the last two-three years the farm has put a lot of effort into strawberry production on black plastic using plugs.
• Webster Farms or Wheaton’s Christmas Tree Farm & Craft Shop. Webster Farms is operated by three brothers who grow strawberries, rhubarb for processing, dry beans, grain and have a box mill making strawberry boxes. They have their own processing facilities for rhubarb and do some strawberries as well.
• C.O. Keddy Nursery. Informal tour and BBQ. This nursery grows strawberry plants, raspberry canes, rhubarb roots and asparagus crowns. They also have a herd of 100 cattle and grow grain, hay and corn.
Cost of the tour is $325 per person based on double occupancy or $385 per person for single occupancy. The registration fee includes two night’s hotel, seven meals, all tour stop entrance fees, gratuities and transportation fees. Tour participation is on a first come, first served basis. One bus (55 passengers) has been booked and 80 registrations are required before a second bus will be booked. For more information e-mail NASGAHQ@aol.com.
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