Success Stories
The future is sunny for Launching highbush blueberry farm
Four years ago, Gerard Morrison super-charged the growth of his new highbush blueberry operation in Launching, PEI, when he plugged into the sun.
“The system is helping to grow the quantity of berries we need to be a self-supporting small family business, and it is producing the high quality we want our name associated with.”
- Gerard Morrison
Processing plant gives brothers more time to profit from the fruits of their labour
“When we combine the blueberry acreage our parents have, the strawberry fields that came with the garden centre, and the new fields of raspberries we planted, our family grows more fruit than we can sell out of the Farm Market in a matter of three or four weeks. But with the ability to clean, freeze and store the crop in our processing plant, we can spend those three weeks concentrating on the harvest and then use the rest of the year to add value to our crop.”
- Terry Nabuurs
Association looks to build competitive edge in Island beef herd
“It’s important to have good facilities to protect the animals and the people working with them,” says Glenn Campbell.
That’s why he is happy to have a new swing gate handling unit that can be operated by a single person to safely move his cattle, and to keep them still when they need to be.
Innovative apple storage solution offers grower fresh marketing opportunities
As one of the emerging players in Prince Edward Island’s (PEI) apple industry, Teo Herweijer, owner of Belvedere Produce in Brookfield and Vice President of the PEI Tree Fruit Growers Association, says he is finding ways to address the marketing challenges created by this year’s huge harvest of apples across the continent.
Orchard finds sweet success with dehydrated apple slices
Top Notch Farms in Milton Station started making fresh apple cider weekly with apples that were slightly blemished, known in the industry as seconds or culls. They also found a market for the imperfect fruit itself with customers who welcomed the opportunity to get premium apples for a bargain price. That’s when they heard that some of these customers were dehydrating their seconds and loving the results.
Farm finding success with cost-saving, greener tillage technique
As far as Kyle Harris is concerned, strip tillage is a winning technique for both his farm and the environment. Like the name implies, this practice involves preparing the soil in narrow strips where the crops will be planted. While conventional plowing unearths all of the soil in its path, strip tillage is much more targeted.