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Linda Best, Managing Director
Founding Member, Co-chair and Treasurer of FarmWorks, Chair Friends of Agriculture in NS, Medical Microbiologist Linda Best grew up on a farm in the Annapolis Valley. Since graduating from Acadia University in 1966 she has been involved with the Queen Elizabeth II Hospital in Halifax as a Medical Microbiologist (1966 – 1995), Medical Researcher and author of peer-reviewed Gastroenterology papers and presenter at Research Conferences (1995 – 2012) and as a Director of the Capital District Health Authority (2001 – 2005). For twelve years she operated Alderbrook apple orchard ...
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Danny Martin – Director
Danny Martin is a well known local musician who has played the Trombone since he was thirteen. Besides serving 25 years in the Canadian Armed Forces as a trombonist with the Stadacona Band, fronting his own bands like Salsa Picante or performing which such local acts as The Hopping Penguins, Rasta Gumbo and Mike Cowie he has also per-formed with international acts such as The Spinners, Anne Murray, David Clayton Thom-as and Gino Vannelli. In 2012 he wanted to invest money in Nova Scotia. When his friend Lil MacPherson told him about FarmWorks he ...
