Hello!
Our family lives in the Margaree area of Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, a short distance from the beautiful Cabot Trail!
We offer home-produced or locally-grown foods and handcrafted items. In the spring, we also sell seedlings and transplants for your garden and fruit patch.
We are siblings who, between our other jobs, are using practical skills we were raised with and/or learned in post-secondary studies to serve our community!
From our home to yours!
Our Farm Stand
We now also operate a seasonal, roadside farm stand. It offers fresh, locally-grown vegetables and sometimes some of our other items.
If it is a very rainy day, come up to the house instead. (Knock at side entrance.)
Our Food Products
One of us is certified with the Canadian Food Institute Agency as a safe-food handler. And all of us are or have taken food-related course(s).
We take orders for the products you see on our website for pick-up in Margaree Valley. Baked goods are usually made-to-order fresh and available for pick-up on Saturday mornings (or Friday late afternoons) on orders placed by Thursday morning.
Regular (ongoing), weekly orders may also be placed (e.g. for picking up your quantity of bread each Saturday).
We enjoy creating a variety of homemade items, often made with old-fashioned techniques or recipes!
Our Other Products
We currently offer a small variety of art/crafts, and supplies as well! You can see more of these at craft markets we attend.
We also do custom work in handcrafts or wood building projects. You can see the types of items we can make for you here.
One of us is a graduate of Dalhousie’s environmental design program (School of Architecture) and holds a construction estimation certification (cost analysis).
Why the name “Heritage Home…”?
Almost all of our great-grandparents (i.e. from our dad’s and our mom’s families) were involved in farming in one way or another and collected many recipes to use for the products grown or produced at their farms – with ingredients such as cream, butter, peaches, cherries, honey, maple syrup and more.
Practical home-craft skills were also passed along in the generations. Among these people who are examples to us were bakers, musicians, crafters, and creative writers, and an older cousin became a professional artist. (A painting of his is shown below and some of his artwork is available through us at local markets/bazaars.)
Grandma, Grandpa, and our parents were sometimes vendors at craft and/or farmers markets. And as we were growing up, we would sometimes enter fall fair competitions for fun (and win)!
So that’s why we named it “Heritage Home…”!
