When the wildfires descended on his Nova Scotia farm last month, Peter Sutherland wasn’t surprised. Drought conditions had turned the land and foliage in Shelburne County—normally lush in late May—to kindling. The fires were all that the locals were talking about for days, and the ashy smoke that billowed across the skies was soon followed by flames visible from Sutherland’s Wild Blueberry U-Pick in Clyde River, along the province’s southwestern tip, two and a half hours from the capital of Halifax. Yet he was still caught off guard when the message came: Evacuate immediately.
“I couldn’t move,” says Sutherland. “If I would have been given 15 minutes,” he trails off.
Sutherland considers himself lucky that he didn’t lose his home, but the fire destroyed a $200,000 harvester, as well as utility tractors, sprayers, a transport trailer and more. All told, Sutherland figures the damage to his equipment to be more than $400,000, and it’s not clear how much the smoke and flames have otherwise damaged his 70 acres. The fires wiped out crops on as much as 20 percent of his 35 active acres, and the pollinating bumblebees from his 40 hives have been ominously absent—a problem that he worries could affect his yields next season.
“All the lands around, just devastated,” says Sutherland. “It’s just black as you can see.”
Sutherland was one of a reported 20 or so farmers and producers affected by the fires in Nova Scotia’s Shelburne County and Halifax Regional Municipality. But countless others across Canada have felt a similar distress in recent weeks. And as farmers can attest, the impacts of a single season can last much longer and spread much wider than one wildfire.
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