Pat Fogarty owns and operates Fogarty's Market Garden, which sells food grown on his Hammonds Plains residential farm. Citing a 2018 study on household food security in Canada, the city says Nova Scotia has the highest rate of food insecurity of any province. Niki Jabbour, a well-known Nova Scotian gardener, writer and contributor to CBC Radio's Maritime Noon, said she supports initiatives to improve food security. Reducing environmental impactJabbour said market gardening should be done not only to increase food security, but also for the environmental impact of reducing how far food has to travel. He said food security should be a priority for government and is more important than other matters, such as installing swing sets or playgrounds.

Source: CBC News September 11, 2022 20:20 UTC