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 [...]
As with many of you we have felt the frost quakes, had difficulty starting cars and tractors and generally griped about the cold. We've been working diligently in the market trying to keep the apples and the water pipes from freezing.Our moving has been hampered with the cold weather as most things are frozen into [...]
I love the start of apple season. There are many early apples, my favorite is Ginger Gold; it is crunchy and sweet. For all you tart apple lovers we have a small amount of Paula Red apples, they are just starting to be harvested.Time flies and before you know it September will be here, Macintosh [...]
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 [...]
Our Spring Blossom Honey is now available. Come Monday August 6th, the Civic Holiday, to celebrate all the hard work the bees do to give us honey. Enjoy the farm and all our weekend activities. Learn more about bees and the honey making process with extra activities throughout the day. Best yet sample the different [...]
It is Awesome in name and flavour. Awesome is a gourmet sweet, peaches and cream corn that is a nice combination of sweetness and corn flavour. With proper refridgeration it should stay sweet for a few days. For optimal flavour it is still best to only get what you can eat that day. Currently the [...]
We had a great day with our Celebrate Honey Festival this past Monday. Thanks to all who came out and participated. The staff had a great time presenting activities about bees and bee keeping and the honey sampling was popular. We still have honey available to sample for the next week or so, check it [...]
Chech out the C shaped larvae.Getting stung and removing the stinger properly. Here's a drone, hold gently by the thorax. Opening and checking the hiveMelanie showing us a brood frameThese are some photos I took at the workshop
We've had beehives producing honey on our farm for over 20 years and in this time I've managed to pick up a lot of info from our beekeeper David. Yesterday I had the opportunity to attend an Introduction to Beekeeping workshop held at Dancing Bee Apiaries and led by the Ontario Beekeepers Association Tech Transfer [...]
Winter didn't seem to take too long this year, it was a busy one. Check out our website for some new stuff. We are currently developing our birthday party program and there is a page for that. You can email us an inquiry and we'll send you out the information as soon as it is [...]