Category: Quebec

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.

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Recipes & Travel:
Chic Choc Spiced Rum, cidre de glace, Domaine Pinnacle Ice Ciders, How to make Ice Apple Cider, ice apple cider, Methods to make Ice Apple Cidre

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.

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Recipes & Travel:
Blue Poppy Glade, Canadian Garden Tourism, International Garden Festival, Jardins de Metis, Reford Gardens