Looking over his pumpkins Sunday, Ladysmith farmer Murray McNab felt a sense of relief that only comes at this time of year, as the season wraps up in a harvest.

“Beautiful. One of the best years for growing corn; pumpkins got very little help,” said McNab, who has been working on his family’s Ladysmith farm since 1962.

“It was a nice year, there wasn’t any extremes and that was really important for us,” said Grant Keefer, owner of Yellowpoint Cranberries.

Despite months of drought that contributed to summer forest fires, conditions improved in mid-August when the South Coast recorded an atmospheric river. Then according to Environment Canada, B.C. baked in its hottest September on record. Heat that Isabelle Morris, a Nanaimo-area farmer with Farmship Growers Co-op said helped finish ou

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