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Meet (some of) the Women in Agriculture

“We have two other siblings, a brother and another sister. We all ended up in some form or another working in agriculture. So that says something about how growing up on our parents’ dairy farm affected us.”
– Sophie Sharp

Sharp Brook Flower Farm

Who they are: Sisters Sophie Sharp (left) and Ellen Folkins

What they do: Co-owners of Sharp Brook Flower Farm

When they started: 2021

Lower Millstream, NB

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