New Malt House Offers Locally Sourced Ingredient for N.B. Alcohol Makers
New Brunswick distillers and craft brewers now have a made-in-New-Brunswick source of a crucial booze-making ingredient: malts.
New Brunswick distillers and craft brewers now have a made-in-New-Brunswick source of a crucial booze-making ingredient: malts.
Former NHL defenceman TJ Galiardi is a co-founder of Outcast Foods, which is working with the grocery chain to use “misfit” fruits and vegetables in Plant Strong Protein products.
Tony Tang runs New Garden Organics in Memramcook, where he grows and sells plants often used in Asian dishes, such as bok choy, daikon, gailan and others.
The Fredericton brewer is now using mostly malted barley grown at Hillview Farms in the Florenceville area. Previously it relied almost exclusively on a heritage variety from Britain.
The Fish Harvest Benefit will be available for those whose fishing income fell more than 25 percent this tax year.
The local labour force doesn’t have the skillset, knowledge, and willingness to do the physical work required at farms.
The new measures will help bring in temporary foreign workers to aid the farming and fishery industries.
Maritime farmers rely heavily on foreign workers to fill seasonal positions on their farms. While those workers will still be allowed into the country, uncertainty remains about exactly when and how they will be able to get in.
Sales manager Peter Darrow says the laid-back Christian lifestyle of Northampton created the conditions for the company’s growth.
The Smart Energy Company says this the first solar power generation station in the province with its connection to the NB Power grid.