Photo by Mike Farkus
From butternut and chestnut to hickory and hazelnuts, Ernie Grimo cultivates more than 20 varieties of nut trees as well as unusual fruit trees at Grimo Nut Nursery in Niagara-on-the-Lake.
Chestnuts, still on the tree.
The hazelnut harvest is just a small sample of larger opportunities as farmers such as Ernie Grimo test different varieties for Canadian hardiness in hopes of grow the local nut industry
Grimo with his daughter Linda
A handful of Japanese walnuts.
