Here’s how quiet it is at Knoydart Farm: it’s on the road you take to get to Arisaig.
Almost straddling the boundary between Pictou and Antigonish counties, and on the shore of the Northumberland Strait, Knoydart is where Frazer Hunter and his wife and son run one of two organic dairy farms in the province.
And the only cheddar cheese operation.
It was Hunter’s expertise with sheep that led to his family moving from Scotland to Cape Breton in 1978, and he’s got tales of 3,000 sheep being flown into Sydney, only to be placed in quarantine for five years, and of watching ships laden with turnips leaving Mabou Harbour, destined for Newfoundland.
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