In 1976 I was offered the job of managing the farm and NB roadside markets for the family business, Stirling Fruit Farms LTD. As a young graduate from Nova Scotia Agricultural College, the challenge was too great to resist. I moved to Gagetown and…
AppleManFarms Ltd. – In 2004 fifty years had gone by since Hurricane Edna sent A. R. Stirling to Gagetown to buy an apple orchard on the banks of the beautiful Saint John River. To celebrate this event, I started the creation of my own direct…
Happy Knight Wines was established in early 2011 by Matt and Angela Guptill. The winery acreage is located on the warm, sunny slopes at the head of Belleisle Bay in Hatfield Point, NB. The land was originally settled in 1784 and, eight generations…
Jeff and Janet of Magnetic Hill Winery didn’t originally set out to be winemakers. They owned and operated Utopia U-Pick, the largest strawberry and raspberry u-pick in New Brunswick. After 10 years, the u-pick’s four-week income became too…
Our grapes at Pioneer Estate Winery grow on a south facing slope near those original homesteads and is the highest elevation vineyard in Eastern Canada at 565 feet above sea level. This unique location offers a combination of longer sun exposure and…
Richibucto River Wine Estate was established in 2005 by Alan Hudson. He grew up locally and had lived on the property with his family for 20 years before starting the vineyard. He is also the winemaker, although in 2017 he began teaching his…
Tuddenham Farms has grown considerably since 1920 and has become a modern harvest and processing operation. While some of the old methods are still used, we have continued to grow and improve. We have recently received our CanadaGAP®Certification,…
Our surroundings at Verger Belliveau Orchard had already been home to Acadian agriculture for two centuries when in 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, a gentleman named Sébastien Bourgeois returned to his village after having succeeded as…
Waterside farms Cottage Winery came to be with the help of New Brunswick’s Department of Agriculture. Ed Mantell, the owner, had been growing blueberries and wanted to use the blueberries to make a fruit wine. And has been doing so with great…
Upholding a high German standard of excellence at Winegarden Estate while preserving a 150-year-old family tradition, the Rosswog family of Baie Verte traces its distilling roots back to the Black Forest region of Germany and the innovations of…
