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Hi there! I'm Leah Noble, and from 2012 to 2014 this was my blog, "Dream Big Cape Breton." I used this space to share my thoughts, my photographs, and my take on life in Cape Breton.
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Growing hops in Nyanza: The Kilted Moose
Do you remember my first interview, all the way back in February? It was with Jeremy and Melanie White, who had moved here from Vancouver and Montreal (via Nicaragua), bought an old farmhouse and farm property, and were working on … Continue reading
Posted in Business ideas, Food + agriculture, Newcomers
Tagged agriculture, beer, Cape Breton, food, hops, Kilted Moose Farmhouse Brewery, microbrewery, Nyanza
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Market day!
I had forgotten over the winter about the true joy that is a community farmers’ market, live and happening. You know, in community work and in conversation about the future of Cape Breton’s food sources, people talk a lot about … Continue reading
give some lonesome veggies a good home
The community market in my hometown, Baddeck, is running a fun fundraiser this year – “Adopt-a-veggie!” Here are the details from their press materials. (I think I’m going to start with a radish and work my way up to a … Continue reading
Posted in Food + agriculture, Markets
Tagged agriculture, Baddeck, Baddeck Community Market, food
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A community garden is growing in Baddeck…
Every now and again on my lunchtime walks I’ll saunter by the spot where the community garden is going in. I like seeing the plan come to life. County CAO Sandy Hudson tells me that there are around seven beds … Continue reading
Posted in Food + agriculture, Towns + communities
Tagged agriculture, Baddeck, Cape Breton, community, food, gardens, Victoria County
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“Ideas Powered by Passion” – Why Rural Matters
It starts by writing. This is me in the Toronto Airport last week. It was the day before I was to give a short speech as part of “Ideas Powered by Passion”, in Sydney, and before the flight I was … Continue reading
Victoria County Plans Community Garden for Baddeck
This is so exciting! Behind the courthouse in Baddeck, the County is creating a community garden. Beds are only ten bucks! Here is both a short Q+A with Lyn Duchesney of Morgan’s Brook Landscaping, and the article that the local … Continue reading
Posted in Food + agriculture, Towns + communities
Tagged agriculture, Baddeck, Cape Breton, community, food, gardens, Victoria County
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Beer Tasting – a Bitter Ale and a Stout
For my first interview on Dream Big Cape Breton, I spoke with Jeremy White and his partner Melanie about how they came to move to Cape Breton, and about their dreams to open a microbrewery. The next time I ran … Continue reading
Posted in Business ideas, Food + agriculture
Tagged agriculture, beer, Cape Breton, economic development, hops, microbrewery
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