Nova Scotia's Sunflower Maze

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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

Birthday Cake Recipe

April 7, 2016 in Recipes / Vintage tagged 1916 / birthday / cake / chocolate / choice recipes / cocoa / dakeyne / farm / frosting / kitchen / marshmallow / recipes / vintage 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

Horses — On Sunday, we packed a picnic and took our girls for an afternoon walk through the woods to the river and back. Some of my favorite memories as a child are of walking through the woods with my grandfather.. Raised in a concrete world where the only nature around is […]

Sunday Walk in the Woods

March 22, 2016 in Growing tagged birch / farm / Forest / fungi / Nature / Sunday / sunflowers / Walk / woods 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

Dakeyne-Farm-house-1912 — The Dakeyne Farm by Annie Wilson The name Dakeyne Farm originated from the Dakeyne Street Lads Club in Nottingham England. This club was formed from The Boys Brigade that was founded by the late Sir William Smith of Glasgow, Scotland. It was the oldest organization for boys, and other clubs […]

Stories from the Farm

February 27, 2016 in History tagged British Home Children / British home kids / Dakeyne Farm / Oliver Hind by Jen