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Best Butcher Shop

Gold Winner Gateway Meat Market Silver Winner Getaway Farm, Seaport Farmers’ Market Bronze Winner Getaway Farm, Hydrostone Tamara Selig says Gateway Meat Market prides itself in offering Halifax the best prices on fresh, quality meats and produce. This fourth gold makes her especially proud of Gateway’s growth—from its beginnings as a three-person operation to one […]

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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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The Shop talk guided tour:

The Waterfront is Halifax; you can’t talk about this town without talking about the harbour, our maritime history, our naval bases, our shipping… our casino, our bars, our tourists. It’s hard to believe now, but back in the 1960s the powers that be wanted to bulldoze everything interesting on the waterfront and replace it with […]

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