Just four per cent of New Brunswick’s viable farmland is in active agricultural use, according to the province, and New Brunswick produces less than 10 per cent of its own vegetables.
Province, farming groups to work with municipalities on identifying farmland
Raechel Huizinga · CBC News
· Posted: Apr 06, 2026 5:00 AM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago
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Danielle Connell, president of New Brunswick’s Agricultural Alliance, says ‘serious reforms’ to the Farm Land Identification Program are coming in 2026. (Aniekan Etuhube/CBC News)
When Danielle Connell bought the farm she passed on the school bus for 12 years, one of the first things she did was get rid of the rat poison.
Connell, who started her Lower Cambridge farm with her partner in 2021, knew the return of natural predators like weasels would neutralize her mouse problem. She put the same faith in her sheep; livestock brings bugs, bugs bring birds. Now, walking through her barns, you can hear the singing of house sparrows and swallows, a vocalization of an ecosystem restored.
Farmland restoration, though, is not always so simple. For idle properties overrun by trees,
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