About Our Farm
On Farm Disease & Virus Mitigation Protocol
We are committed to providing the healthiest tubers that we can and take disease and virus prevention very seriously.
We visually inspect plants regularly throughout the season and will pull plants at the first sign of symptoms, without hesitation, no matter the variety. Testing using Agdia Strips for CMV, INSV, TSWV and TSV is done periodically. The two main vectors for spread of disease are contaminated tools and insects. Any tools that are used in the production of dahlias - from taking cuttings to harvesting blooms to digging and dividing tubers - are sanitized between each and every plant. We employ numerous natural controls to reduce insects known to cause issue such as sticky traps, earwig traps and beneficial insects such as ladybugs, aphidoletes, green lacewings.
Despite all of the measures we take, there are no guarantees. Virus and disease can be spread from thousands of other plants in existing landscapes. We plant what we sell and healthy plants are of the highest priority.
Our Story
We've spent a lifetime growing things... vegetables, chickens, cattle, pigs... and babies!
Raising six children on a rural Nova Scotian hog farm has been the most rewarding, although certainly no small task. 'Homegrown', 'frugal' and 'DIY' weren't just buzzwords, they were a way of living. Once the days of running for soccer, hockey and football were over, I thought I better take my Aunt Carolyn up on a shoebox of dahlia tubers. After all, with the likelihood of six weddings in our future, a lot could be saved if I learned how to grow all the flowers... and that's how this passion for dahlias began. The funny thing about it all was that I loved every bit of the process- from the researching, planning and purchasing, to the planting and watching for the little shoots to break ground, to the first buds beginning to crack and of course all the beauty they would bestow... and I really, really loved dividing tubers!!
Just like that, if you give a girl a dahlia, she's going to want them all, and then she's gonna want more flowers to go with them, and then she's going to have to sell them so her husband doesn't wonder what happened to the bank account.... and there you have a little piece of Greener Pastures as we know it today.
Join us in the garden... it's beautiful there.
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