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Statistics
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Size
Population
Shoreline
Roads
Annual Sunshine
Annual Rainfall |
185 square mm (74 square miles)
approximately 10,000
135 km (83 miles)
650 km (410 miles)
2004 hours
84 cm (34 inches) |
Having grown up in Cobalt, Ontario (Climatic
Zone 2), a silver mining town and the Best Old Town I Know, I had made attempts to grow
apple trees there, but with little success. When I first saw Salt Spring Island in 1978,
the gardener in me saw "heaven", and I immediately started to get connected to
that island. It was within a year of that first visit that I had bought a 5-acre parcel of
freshly logged land in the more remote south end, home to hippies and the deer.
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