NB Organic Farmers

• Nova Scotia Farmers
• PEI Farmers
• Amarosia Organic Garden
• Angus East Organics - "Organic grass-fed beef is healthier for you, healthier for the animals and healthier for the planet!"
• Big Sky Farm - Big impact, small footprint.
• Bunnett Farms - Two brothers working together to each grow their organic farms.
• Canadian Organic Maple - Try their delicious pure maple syrup.
• Chestnut Acres - Mixed veggies are their specialty!
• Circle 'S' Farms - Looking to the past for new ways of farming
• Diddley-Squash Farm - A mother's passion for growing healthy, sustainable food
• Falls Brook Centre - This community education and demonstration centre is located in rural New Brunswick.
• Five Tier Farms - A young Maritime family starts fresh with local organics!
• Good Spring Farm - A passion for good food.
• HutLo Acres - Over 70 of the best tasting apple varieties in the world in this orchard.
• Organic Cranberries - Stan & Anne-Marie: the Cranberry Connoisseurs!
• Northampton Brewing Company, Picaroons Traditional Ales - Helping the world, one beer at a time
• S & G Blue - The largest blueberry operation in the Province!
• Shepherd's Gardens - "Organic is not a luxury - it's how farming should be"
• Slipp Farms 1784 Ltd. - A 7th generation family farm
• Speerville Flour Mill - Whole grain goodness!
• Springbrook Cranberry Inc - A traditional family operation
• Our Garden in Taymouth - Dedicated Community Farmers
• Whaelghinbran Farm - Meet Clark and Susan, two of the region's organic pioneers.

HutLo Acres

HutLo Acres, owned and operated by Mike Hutton and Essie Lom, is located in Knowlesville, New Brunswick.

 Mike and Essie were living in Montreal, and looking for farmland, but could not find any affordable land in Quebec. In 1978, when they came to New Brunswick to visit a friend, they found the land that is now HutLo Acres. By 1990, when they moved to Knowlesville, they already had 150 apples trees.

 On the 93 acres of land that makes up HutLo Acres, there are five acres of apple trees, a half-acre of plum trees, and a very large garden. Other than apples and plums, they produce vegetables, including beans, potatoes, cabbages, broccoli, onions, garlic, and zucchini. Hutlo Acres also produces apple products, like cider and preserves.

 “Growing apples in the Eastern part of North America represents just about the greatest challenge to organics”, explains Mike. Some of the 50 types grown at HutLo Acres include Redfree, NovaMac, Hazen and Liberty. Another challenge is not using sprays like the conventional farmers can. Conventional farmers can spray to knock off the flowers or the small apples, whereas at HutLo Acres they have to do this manually.

 “We felt that we had a little piece of the world that we could do well by”, says Mike, as to why they farm organically. HutLo Acres was first certified in 1990 when Mike and Essie moved to New Brunswick. Mike explains that when you are certified, people can trust the logo, “and even people you don’t know can be sure that you are definitely organic, not just organic because you say so.”

 Mike and Essie strongly support the idea of local food and small-scale production, selling their products at health food stores in Fredericton, Woodstock, and Grand Falls Market, as well as through a CSA in Woodstock. They also believe that educating people is very important and try to teach consumers about their different types of apples, which may not have familiar names.

 In the future, Mike and Essie are hoping to get a larger amount of trees in production. At the current time, 3 acres of apples are in production, but their goal is to grow and provide more local apples to New Brunswick consumers.