Domaine Pinnacle Ice Cider Frozen to the Core

The 100-year old apple trees at Domaine Pinnacle were an afterthought. One could call the purchase of a farmhouse, built in 1859, a bit of a coup de coeur (love struck impulse). Susan and Charles Crawford have a particular affinity to Vermont’s Jay Peak Resort the mountain where they would religiously take to take their children for ski lessons on winter weekends from Montreal.

Jay Peak from Domaine Pinnacle #DomainePinnacle #JayPeak

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Art and Flowers in Canada’s Top Garden Jardins de Metis

Elsie Reford would anxiously await the arrival of her seed package orders during Montreal’s dreary winter months. These precious parcels would arrive with the promise of future exotic plants from around the globe. Elsie would store the packets until spring when she and her husband Robert Wilson Reford would head to their home on Quebec’s remote Gaspé Peninsula.

© 2008, Robert Baronet, Jardins de Métis/Reford Gardens

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