Nova Scotia's Sunflower Maze

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Want to win two free passes to next years Sunflower Maze? See your photo in a Calendar? Enter our 2017 Calendar Contest Send your favorite two photos* that you took while visiting our farm** to Contest@DakeyneFarm.com by September 30th for a chance to be in our 2017 Sunflower Maze Calendar […]

2017 Sunflower Maze Calendar Contest

September 27, 2016 in News tagged calendar / contest / dakeyne / farm / news / photo / Sunflower by Jen

EndofSeason — It’s always sad when we close for the season.. the flowers bowing their heads, with a couple shrivelled up petals holding on. Every once in a while, we find one or two late bloomers.. still hanging on.. looking brighter than ever. We had a fabulous Season despite the lack of rain. Thank […]

The Last Petal

September 27, 2016 in Growing / News tagged end of season / Last petal / sunflowers by Jen

What would we do.. if we didn't have a field of Sunflowers?

What would we do… if we didn’t have a field ...

August 9, 2016 in Family / Growing / News tagged farmlife / Sisters / sunflowers by Jen

We are Hiring!!

June 20, 2016 in Growing / News / Uncategorized by Jen

We have been busy planting our gardens while our Sunflowers grow. We put in potatoes, pumpkins, squash, corn, and beans at the top of the maze.. and will be busy filling the bottom garden with herbs, edible flowers and salad fixings this week. Grow little gardens Grow!! On top of […]

Farm Update: Planting and Growing

June 16, 2016 in Growing / News by Jen

Field-Dandelions — It’s that time of year again.. little yellow heads popping up to announce Spring arrival. I’m a happy Beekeeper when I see all those fields of yellow everywhere we go… Dandelions are a very important flower for our bees. It’s one of their first foods after a long winter, and […]

Picking Dandelions

May 24, 2016 in Growing / Jellies / News / Recipes / wildcrafting tagged bees / Dandelions / field / flowers / jelly by Jen

Since we have a field of Sunflowers.. the next logical step was to get bees too.. I have always loved bees.. while the rest of the kids were jumping rope, or swinging off the monkey bars in the schoolyard, I was sitting next to the one dandelion, who struggled to […]

Adventures in Beekeeping: The Beginning

April 19, 2016 in Bees / Growing / News tagged adventure / beekeeping / bees / beginning / Honey / swarm by Jen

Cookbooks — Last summer, while I was in the middle of the field of Sunflowers, Annie was busy cleaning out her recipe drawer. She surprised me with a large box of old cookbooks, recipes, and promotional recipe flyers. A large box!! Of recipes from the past!! It was the best gift, a […]

Vintage Recipes

April 7, 2016 in History / News tagged cookbooks / dakeyne / farm / kitchen / recipes / vintage by Jen

“Once in a while right in the middle of an ordinary life.. Love gives us a fairytale..” Happy Valentine’s Day!! We had a love surprise in the sunflowers this past summer, when a young gentleman planned a surprise vacation engagement for his now bride to be. Together with Barndoor Studio, […]

A Love Story at Dakeyne Farm

February 28, 2016 in News tagged vacation engagement by Jen