The Eastern Shore and Northern Nova Scotia
We’ve compiled the best of the best in The Eastern Shore and Northern Nova Scotia - browse our top choices for the top things to see or do during your stay.
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We’ve compiled the best of the best in The Eastern Shore and Northern Nova Scotia - browse our top choices for the top things to see or do during your stay.
This charming general store is owned by a young family who've created a gorgeous space to pick up fresh-baked-in-store bread, locally made jerky, produce, and all manner of locally sourced goodies from chocolates to maple syrup. There's an ice-cream kiosk open through the summer months, too.
You can see handcrafted Grohmann knives displayed at the Museum of Modern Art in New York—but you can buy them at the factory outlet store here. Prices are discounted and free factory tours usually take place on weekdays from 9 to 11:30 and 1:30 to 3:30.
Besides stocking their own line of seriously cool Nova Scotia-themed hoodies and tees, this gorgeous boutique stocks a huge range of gifts, cards, and food items from local makers.
Craftspeople sell quality goods at this lively waterfront market that takes place on weekends between 10 and 5 from mid-June through mid-September.
Small contemporary gallery showcasing works by local artists with covetable prints, ceramics, and jewelry for sale.
Here you can watch the shop's namesake potter herself at work, producing mostly tableware and also hooked rugs. In July and August informal tours are given. Visitors are also welcome to explore the large gardens.
The owner's clay creations are created in the studio here and sold in the on-site shop alongside works by more than 20 other local artisans. There are also classes and workshops, but advance booking is highly recommended.
This artisans' co-op sells a wide range of crafts, many of which are handcrafted in the Maritimes. Items include hand-dyed and natural yarns, felted woolen items and knits, weaving, blankets, pottery, stained glass, jewelry, and woodwork.
The gallery sells paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and other works by Nova Scotian artists, at reasonable prices.
Lyncharm Pottery produces handsome, functional stoneware that's sold in the shop and exported worldwide.
Atlantic Canada's lifestyle magazine Saltscapes opened this retail outlet on Highway 102 just outside Truro—if you're Halifax-bound, you can't miss it. Maple syrup, maritime-music CDs, crafts, clothing, and other regional products share shelf space at this pseudo general store. A 170-seat restaurant that focuses on East Coast comfort food, including dishes from recipes published in the magazine, also does business here.
For the town's most comprehensive selection of crafts, natural products, and incredible edibles, drop by this store, which represents more than 200 regional artisans.
Maritime crafts sold at The Sunflower include pewter, baskets, wrought iron, quilts, candles, and stoneware by noted local potter Sara Bonnyman.
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