“It is validation that land is an attraction,” said Chris van den Heuvel, president of the Nova Scotia Federation of Agriculture. The Austins opened the business, the Farmer’s Daughter Country Market, in 1992 in Whycocomagh, Nova Scotia, after a life spent dairy farming. Over plates of turkey and turnips and local condiments like the Farmer’s Daughter Cape Breton chow (a relish made with green tomatoes), the families appeared to blend effortlessly. Each parcel of land is worth only a few thousand Canadian dollars, and Cape Breton has plenty of land for sale. “An hour after we found out someone else had bought the house, I saw the Farmer’s Daughter post,” Kerry Walkins said.

Source: National Post October 21, 2016 17:18 UTC