Today, Christmas trees have now replaced the pumpkins. We've just created our own little forest of fresh cut fraser fir, balsam, spruce and pine. Oh, the smell of evergreens, I love them all. The cool, wet summer everyone lamented has given us gorgeous, lush Christmas trees. They thrived this past season. We do try to [...]
Each season has it's own special crops that we look forward to with eager anticipation. Nothing quite compares to the fall. The cooler weather stimulates our appetite and we look forward to cooking all our comfort foods once again. The gleam is evident in children's eyes when they see the pumpkins in the patch and [...]
This summer may have been not have been the warmest but for us it has been the fastest. I don't wish time away, each year it just seems to be speeding up. Now we are at Labour Day weekend and planning for the fall season. Our Harvest Festival will be happening each weekend in October. [...]
Come enjoy our 3rd annual Celebrate Honey day on the farm. Learn more about bees and the honey they make, and the beekeepers who manage it all. Sample a selection of our honey, you can taste the difference.We will have wagon rides available on Monday to our Fairy Tale Lane and Discovery Forest walk. Visit [...]
Easter is special to us, a time of faith, and hope. We cherish our time with family in this season of renewal. May your Easter be blessed with family as well.In the windows of opportunity that the weather is giving us we are slowly but surely getting everything moved up from Markham. Our school tour [...]
Fall is now in the air with the cool breezes and cold nights. Halloween is quickly approaching and the fun continues. Our pumpkin crop has been amazing this year - in quality, size and numbers. Our pumpkin corral just keeps filling up to give you a great selection of pumpkins.This will be the last weekend [...]
Labour Day weekend - The defining weekend between summer and fall when we get back to our regular routines after the summer break.For us on the farm it means the tomato crop is coming on strong, fresh picked apples have arrived and the bins of squash are coming in filled from the field. Many of [...]
Anytime is a good time to celebrate honey and in a sense we do that each day. It has become an annual tradition for us here at the farm to really focus on honey bees and the work they do each year on the August holiday Monday.Use your senses to learn more about bees and [...]
Fathers are special. Sometimes taken for granted, not always thanked. Sunday is a good day to pause, take time to let Dad know he is loved and appreciated, before it is too late.This week we are mourning the loss of Jim's Dad who died peacefully and suddenly Monday at the great age of 94. Long [...]