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There’s a bumper crop at Verger Belliveau Orchard this year, thanks to enough rain over the summer months. Hundreds of people from the region participated in a u-pick at the orchard outside of Moncton on Monday.
Verger Belliveau Orchard u-pick is part of growing agri-tourism region in Memramcook
Erica Butler · CBC News
· Posted: Oct 12, 2026 4:56 PM EDT | Last Updated: 30 minutes ago
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Catherine Arsenault is the agri-tourism business operation manager for Verger Belliveau Orchards in Memramcook, N.B. (Erica Butler/CBC)
The tractor ride into the heart of Verger Belliveau Orchard’s u-pick in Memramcook, N.B., was full of groups of families and friends this weekend, all carting away fruit from some of the orchard’s 150,000 trees.
Agri-tourism manager Catherine Arsenault said the business is seeing a bumper crop in 2026.
“The weather has been great this year,” she said.
“We had rain throughout the summer… so that has helped compared to last year, where everything was dry. We couldn’t ask for better.”
It was Danica Hamer’s first visit to the orchard since coming with her mother as a child.
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