Nova Scotia's Sunflower Maze

Yearly Archives: 2016

Chicken-snow — That beautiful moment when the whole family breaks out spontaneously in song after Santa & Mrs. Claus stop in for a quick visit before returning to the North Pole… May this holiday season sparkle and shine, may all of your wishes and dreams come true, and may you feel […]

Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!!

December 27, 2016 in Family / Growing / News tagged christmas / family / farm / Holidays / Santa / Song by Jen

First, before anything else, the Calendars are in!! Hot off the Repracorp Press!! Twelve Months of beautiful Sunflowers. Just in time for Christmas!! Want one? Message me or pick your calendar at the Falmouth Elementary Craft Fair today between 9 & 4. What a busy month (Or two)!! While Kennie has been hard […]

Craft Fairs and Calendars

November 26, 2016 in Family / Growing / News tagged calendar / farm / Market / sunflowers by Jen

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

No.. not Mod Podge… Hodge Podge.. What is Hodge Podge? Other than a delicious well kept Maritime Secret handed down from generation to generation? Hodge Podge is a mix of early summer garden pickings… Invented most likely by a Mother, who lived before the age of microwaves and freezer meals, […]

Hodge Podge

July 14, 2016 in Recipes / Vintage tagged beans / carrots / farm / fresh / garlic scapes / hodgepodge / peas / potatoes / recipe / sage flowers / soup / thyme / veggies 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

Back when things were typed on a typewriter instead of written on a screen, the Nova Scotia Government at the time, produced a little recipe booklet.. filled with Honey Recipes. It has no date, no author, just the title `Honey Recipes` It was published back when we had a Nova […]

Honey Buns

April 28, 2016 in Recipes / Vintage tagged Honey / recipe / vintage by Jen

Last Thursday, Ken and I had the opportunity to pick up packages of Bees for Scotian Bee Honey Photos from our Trip: Ken & I were married almost two years ago, in our very own field of Sunflowers… But as we were busy renovating our farmhouse, raising young children, and […]

Adventures in Beekeeping: The Honeymoon

April 20, 2016 in Bees / Growing tagged bees / Honeymoon / packages / PEI / Prince Edward Island / Scotianbeehoney 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