The New Agrarians

11/02/2026

The Sunset is right on time. West Paradise is located along side the Te'wapskik river (Annapolis River) nearing the Western edge of the Annapolis Valley. The sun is setting over Valleyview Provincial Park on the North Mountian approximately 15 KM away.

This has been a nice spot for Sunsets and will have an opportunity for a couple more of them.

11/02/2026

The Sunset is right on time. West Paradise is located along side the Te'wapskik river (Annapolis River) near the Western edge of the Annapolis Valley. The sun is setting over Valleyview Provincial Park on the Annapolis Valley's North mountian approximately 15 KM away.

This has been a nice spot for sunsets and will have an opportunity for a couple more of them over the next couple of days.

11/01/2026

Absolute madness! Halloween antics on the local food scene! Gotta stay ahead of the dirt man. After dark greenhouse construction along the Annapolis River in Nova Scotia, Canada. All the action is happening for Revival Seeds as they continue to establish a presence on the Annapolis Valley floor, the is the second 24'x60' greenhouse being built this year for the seed company.

New Agrarians founder Barton Cutten shown here closing out the Haloween workday working solo, wrapping up a 6.5 hour straight run at the structure. Cutten has a good handle on polycarbonate installation, making it happen the day before, getting two 12'x6' polycarbonate sheets into place on an end wall during some blustery 40-45km/h wind ghusts.

This is Barton's 5th, and final, complete greenhouse build of the 2026 season adding 1,500 more squee feet of greenhouse growing capacity for Nova Scotia as a whole, add in one complete greenhouse renovation on the year as well.

During these greenhouse builds The New Agrarians has successfully taught an individual to lead greenhouse buidling themselves and the Province will soon have an additional certified greenhouse installer, the person in question is just about complete with their first build and has a second build ready to go to close out the year.

Been a scandalous year of productivity on the greenhouse front around here, someone gotta call this team in!

09/29/2026

***Attention farmers and homesteaders*** ***Extortion/Scam Alert*** Heads up there is a scam making the rounds in NS focusing on small farms and demanding a refund of some sort for a bogus purchase.

Two confirmed farms so far in the past 10 days. The caller asks/demands for a refund for a product they did not purchase and if not refunded they will state they are going to leave a bad review if they do not get refunded. Keep an eye out for this type of call, try to document anything you can and forward to law enforcement.

Screenshot grab posted here is by request and approval from Snowy River Farms.

07/04/2026

Active in Cape Breton. This is a greenhouse build I did back in May near North Sydney, a 24'x48, polycarbonate sheet wrap. Have to be very precise with the placement of arches for a full polycarbonate wrap.

Greenhouse building is very much a theme this season for The NA and getting around the province. Two built in Halifax as well, working on a fourth build in Annapolis County, NS right now (a second structure will be built in the same location later this summer), and 90 percent confirmed for another build near North Sydney later this month. This will make for six builds this year so far totaling 7,488 square feet of greenhouse space.

Barton

05/30/2026

The ticks seem to be a little more ambitious to find humans this Spring here in Nova Scotia. Please be vigilant inspecting yourselves and animals, take preventative precautions too. Lyme disease is no fun.

I've been finding 2-3 on me after even a short excursion which is usual for me. I will be adding extra precautions and deterrents for the foreseeable future.

Barton

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05/04/2026

It would be a good idea to check on your structures today with the current wind, it is unusually destructive the max ghusts. The wind is very disorganized and filled with lots of low pressure pockets that has air thrashing around hyper-locally, this wind can pull siding off the sides of buildings. Instant low pressure eddie's or bursts can be especially destructive, as higher pressure air races to fill the low pressure voids.

Greenhouse plastic is vulnerable today so please check for loose plastic if you have not and get it teathered down more. Stay safe doing it too please.

Barton