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Best Butcher Shop

Gold Winner Gateway Meat Market Silver Winner Getaway Farm Butcher Shop, Seaport Farmers’ Market Bronze Winner Getaway Farm Butcher Shop, Hydrostone This spring, Gateway Meat Market will celebrate 10 years in the butchering biz, and it’s been on a BOH winning streak for two years now. “We have certainly come a long way over 10 […]

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Best Farmers’ Market Stall

Gold Winner Noggins Corner, Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market Silver Winner Getaway Farm Butcher Shop, Seaport Farmers’ Market Bronze Winner School House Gluten-Free Gourmet, Seaport Farmers’ Market Thanks to this market stall, you need not head out to the Annapolis Valley to get your Noggins Corner fix. Its Seaport stall won this award, but you have […]

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Best Butcher Shop

Gold Winner Gateway Meat Market Silver Winner Getaway Farm Butcher Shop, Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market Bronze Winner Chater Meat Market No, that’s not a typo. While Getaway Farm Butcher Shop has routinely taken home the gold as Halifax’s Best Butcher Shop, this year it’s the similarly-named Gateway Meat Market in Dartmouth that our readers have […]

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Best Farmers’ Market Stall

Gold Winner Noggins Corner, Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market Silver Winner Schoolhouse Gluten-Free Gourmet, Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market Bronze Winner Getaway Farms Butcher Shop, Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market Bringing the best of the valley to the urban centre, Noggins Corner once again reigns supreme as Halifax’s Best Farmers’ Market Stall. The purveyors of inimitable Annapolis Valley […]

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Best Butcher Shop

Gold Winner Getaway Farm Butcher Shop, Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market Silver Winner Getaway Farm Butcher Shop, Hydrostone Bronze Winner Gateway Meat Market Getaway, Getaway and Gateway. Are we being Punk’d by this list of winners? The answer is a firm no. The Canning-based Getaway Farm brings people the best darn sustainable meat and grass-fed beef […]

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Best Farmers’ Market Stall

Gold Winner Noggins Farm, Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market Silver Winner Getaway Farms Butcher Shop, Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market Bronze Winner Fruition, Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market How do you like these apples? A hell of a lot, it turns out. But this champ of a market stall is about way more than its glorious apples. Bringing […]

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It’s always Burger Week

The cutting crew What’s a butcher’s most important tool? The right attitude, says Chris de Waal, part-owner of Getaway Farm. As de Waal puts it, that means coming into work and asking “How do I use the whole animal, respect the farmer, respect the land and respect the animal?” Getaway aims to “bring healthy, sustainably […]

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Best Butcher Shop

Gold Winner Getaway Farm Butcher Shop Silver Winner Highland Drive Storehouse Butchery and Local Produce Bronze Winner Sweet William’s Country Sausage, Seaport Farmers’ Market There’s no cellophane in sight at this Seaport Market stall. Getaway’s grass-fed meats are some sweet eats—guilt-free. Carved fresh daily by skilled tradespeople and gingerly wrapped in brown paper, you can […]

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Best Farmers’ Market Stall

Gold Winner Getaway Farm Butcher Shop Silver Winner Fruition Raw Foods Bronze Winner Wrap So D Getaway’s meat mongers keep meeting the needs of Halifax meat eaters. Owner Chris de Waal says the Best Farmers’ Market Stall win is a special honour since the farmers market scene in Halifax is bumpin’. And Getaway deliver a […]

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Best Farmers’ Market Stall

[mage-1] Gold Winner Getaway Farm Silver Winner Schoolhouse Gluten-Free Gourmet Bronze Winner Wrap So D Getaway’s motto is Local. Sustainable. Meat. That basically sums up this popular Seaport Farmers’ Market stall in a nutshell. Committed to grass-fed instead of grain-fed, beef from its farm in Canning is a healthier option—free of fertilizers, pesticides and various […]

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