A Riot of Useful Beauty

By Jigs And Jo Ann Gardner
Published on June 1, 2006
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In 1971, we moved our four children, a small
Noah’s Ark of animals and ourselves to a rundown farm on a remote
peninsula on Cape Breton Island, off the northeastern tip of Nova
Scotia. We lived there for 30 years, farming on a small scale. It
was a hard life, but rewarding — hard because Cape Breton is a
marginal environment for growing; rewarding because we learned to

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