The harvest has begun at Coastal Grove Farm in Upper Port LaTour, Shelburne County, of the first commercial saffron crop grown in Nova Scotia.
The farm, owned by Matthew Roy and Cynthia Bazinet, started taking root this spring when the couple moved to Nova Scotia permanently from New Hampshire. Bazinet was an educator in the U.S. while Roy has had his “hands in the soil for about 20 years now,” he said in an interview.
For Bazinet, whose family history can be traced to the Lunenburg area, “I’ve always wanted to live here all my adult life,” she says. “We found an immigration stream that allowed us to come up here and farm so we came up and found a place to live in 2017 and purchased this house.” “We’ve had our eyes on the prize for quite a while now," she says.
