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2024 Calendar Contest
Did you take an amazing photo at this year’s Sunflower Maze? Show us! Enter your photo into our Calendar contest for a chance to win a free pass to next years maze, along with a spot in our 2025 Sunflower Calendar. Open to Amateurs and Professionals of all ages. Rules: ~ Resolution: The photos must have a high resolution of 300 dpi (dots per inch) or higher. Anything less will not look good…
2023 Calendar Contest
Did you take a beautiful photo during your visit? Show us! Enter our 2023 Calendar contest, and try for a chance to win a spot in our yearly calendar, as well as a free pass for next season's Sunflowers.
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2022 Calendar Contest
It’s that time of year again. Time for another Calendar Contest! ☺️ Did you take an amazing photo at this year’s Sunflower Maze? Enter our 2022 Calendar Contest.. open to Amateurs and Professionals of all ages. Rules: ~ all photos must have been taken in our field this summer. Now that there are so many other Sunflower fields… World wide… How about we accept any sunflower photos.. not just…
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Two days and counting....
2022 Sunflower Maze Update: More Butterflies, more colours, more kites, and lots more memories to be made. #SunflowerMaze #NovaScotia #Twomoredays
…until our Tenth Annual Sunflower Maze!! Ten years! Can you believe it? We hardly can. So while I wait for the corn to boil for supper, in between painting the new shade tent, and putting together our little shop in the shed, I thought maybe I would post a little update about the sunflowers. (It’s too hot to paint right now anyways! That sun is Hot!) First. Business: Why no more Events posted…
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Calendar Contest
A little late.. I know.. the garden weather has been so lovely lately.. but better late than never, right?
Did you take an amazing photo at this year’s Sunflower Maze? Enter our 2021 Calendar Contest.. open to Amateurs and Professionals of all ages.
Rules:
~ all photos must have been taken in our field this summer.Now that there are so many other Sunflower fields… World wide… How about…
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Spring Update: Covid19 Edition
Spring Update: Covid-19 Edition
First.. The Nitty Gritty:
To Sunflower.. or not to Sunflower..
That is the question.. isn’t it?
Yes!! There will be Sunflowers this year… even in this time of uncertainty, and COVID19… We still intend to plant our Sunflower seeds, after the full moon in June, like we have done for the past nine seasons.
We have the bees.. and the birds.. and the butterflies to think about… along…
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2020 Sunflower Maze Calendar Contest
2020 Sunflower Maze Calendar Contest
Did you take an amazing photo at this year’s Sunflower Maze? Enter our 2020 Calendar Contest.. open to Amateurs and Professionals of all ages.
Rules:
~ all photos must have been taken in our field this summer.
~ digital camera photos only.. we will be asking for a high resolution copy to be printed.
~ any photos of folks breaking the rules of the maze will not be excepted.
~ One…
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2018 Calendar Contest
Want to see your photo in a Calendar? Enter our 2018 Sunflower Maze Calendar Contest
Want to win two free passes to Next Year’s Sunflower Maze? See your photo in a Calendar? Enter our 2018 Calendar Contest Open to Amateurs and Professionals both equally. Send your favorite photo* that you took while visiting our farm** to [email protected] by October 9th for a chance to be in our 2018 Sunflower Maze Calendar as well as two free passes to our 2018 Sunflower Maze. We will…
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The petals have fallen.. and our season is over.. until next year.
It was a beautiful Season… Our flowers have gone through their cycle, from seed to flower, and now back to seed.. giving us a brief moment of beauty, and ending with the gift of a brighter future ahead, with so many magical moments & wonderful memories made in the process!!
Thank you for stopping by and sharing the day with us!! It was wonderful to have met you all!! We can’t wait to see what next year brings us!!
Photos from the Last of the Late Bloomer’s Weekend.. Where we spent our days in the field of sunflowers and our evenings at the Hants County Exhibition with our two little 4h Cloverbuds and their winning potatoes.
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We took a few days off since our closing on Sunday, September 17th to do a little housekeeping.. (ok.. a lot of cleaning.. it seems as though the magic house cleaning fairies took a vacation while the maze was going on.. we had some catching up to do 🙂 )
…So to continue with some Sunflower Maze/Farm Housekeeping Notes:
If you signed up for a Beef Share, Adopt a Beehive, or a Butterfly for next year’s release.. we will be getting back to you shortly (shortly after we finish harvesting our sunflowers and gardens.. and washing the floors)
We now have an Instagram Account (Yay! @DakeyneFarm) so tag us in all your pretty photos. We would love to see them!!
If I missed your call, email, post or message.. we apologize.. it was a busier than expected season.. and at the very end.. the fuse blew in our office… the next day I dropped my phone and broke the screen.. making answering it.. touch and go.. or touch and no go.. depending on it’s mood. We will be catching up with everyone.. as soon as we catch up with ourselves.
Calendar Contest… Coming soon.. Get your photos ready!! And Professional Photogs… I saw a few of you.. and we will be posting about a contest just for you soon!
And Lastly, thanks to a few bad apples.. (we wouldn’t want them to spoil the whole bag.. so I’m taking them out and putting them on the table right now)
Crossing the Rope..
a few have.. and posted about it.. making us sad… disappointed.. and a little uneasy. Here’s why it’s not “cool” or “Fun” for the people who own the maze.. or the hill across from it.. or really.. for any farmer with land anywhere..
1. It’s bow hunting season… being in a field in the county without permission during hunting season is not cool, nor fun.. it can be very dangerous.
2. It’s still Trespassing.. even if it’s a rope.. even if there is no rope.. walking on to a farmer’s property is still trespassing. See #1.
3. If you get hurt.. our insurance goes up. Our insurance goes up.. our admission prices will rise.
4. To prevent #3 and #2 we now have to invest in a security system.. which sucks.. because I was wishing for a bigger shed.
5. If you had called.. or knocked on the farmhouse below.. I would have been more than happy to let you in.. No need to break the law to get that photo you wanted.
6. Our two little girls, and their parents worked really hard all summer to bring these flowers to you.. to take from us, a small farm family.. by “taking” your photos, instead of asking permission.. breaks their dear little hearts.. and ours.. when we have to explain to them why someone’s moral compass was broken enough for them to feel entitled to take without asking… to rip two little girls off from their hard work.. just so that person can get more ‘likes’ on Social Media.
And so.. because of the recent Rope Crossing..
We are now opening a Moral Compass Repair Shop
If you know someone who needs their Moral Compass fixed.. or know someone who lost one at our maze while they were crossing the rope .. send them our way.. We would love to put them to work, helping them fix their compass, while harvesting our Sunflower Seed Crop.. and they can take as many photos as they want…
Again.. (because we can’t say ‘Thank you’ enough!!)
Thank you so much for being a part of our 2017 Sunflower Maze Season!!
It was a joy sharing our field with you, and we hope to see you again next year!!
Thank you!!! Thank you!! Thank you!! Thank you!! Thank you!!! Thank you!! Thank you!! Thank you!! <- still not enough 🙂
PS. feel free to add in the comments your favorite memory, moment, or photo from this summer’s Sunflowers..
The Petals have Fallen for this year.. See you in 2018 #SunflowerMazeNS #DakeyneFarm The petals have fallen.. and our season is over.. until next year. It was a beautiful Season...
Did you know a little petting farm opened up just down the road and around the corner from us?
Mount Denson just got a bit more exciting!!
We decided to stop by today for a quick tour and some animal love. Little pigs you can sit with.. tiny versions of our horses to brush and love.. goats, guinea pigs and so much more. The girls loved it.. and they got to hold a cute little bunny!
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This farm is open to the public as a petting farm Monday-Thursday 10am-3pm, Saturday & Sunday 10am-6pm.
$5.00 per person under 3 are FREE, or you can book a one-on-one 90 minute session for $25.00 with a social service worker on duty and the very cute miniature breed farm animals.
Visit their Facebook page here: Facebook.com/Dragonfly-Haven-Therapeutic-Farm
We stopped in for a visit today with our new neighbors, Dragonfly Haven Therapeutic Farm, a brand new mini petting farm just down the road. Did you know a little petting farm opened up just down the road and around the corner from us?
Now that the weather has warmed.. finally.. as well as the passing of the first full moon in June.. and the cutting of the first crop of hay of the season.. It’s time to get ready for Nova Scotia’s 2017 Sunflower Maze! The Butterflies have been ordered, and the girls are currently brainstorming this year’s theme and maze design. We can’t wait to share our farm, it’s view and our field of sunflowers with you!! Who doesn’t want to Get Lost in a field of Sunflowers? Or Go fly a Kite? or Picnic in a field while watching the tide change, the eagles play, and the Belted Galloway calves play?
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And.. the garlic scapes are ready!! This is one of my favorite times of year.. Our garlic loving family cannot wait for fresh Pickled Garlic Scapes, Garlic Scape Hummus, Garlic Scape bread, steamed scapes and Ken’s favorite: Garlic Scape Pesto, which I will share with you below. If you are looking for Garlic Scapes, we will have some with us at the Hantsport Pop Up Farmer’s Market, Saturday July 1st from 8:30-12pm.. or you can always message us for fresh straight outta the garden picked. 🙂
But first.. What are Garlic Scapes? The Scape is the top of the hard neck garlic plant, just before it flowers when the neck with grows a spear, and then curls twice. It’s important to cut them off in order to push the growth back into the bulbs so as to get large bulbs of garlic a few weeks later.. otherwise.. you can let it flower (and eat those), or let it turn to seed (and eat them too) but your bulb will remain small.
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Garlic Scape Pesto & the Sunflower Maze has sprouted. #GarlicScapes #NovaScotiaSunflowerMaze2017 Now that the weather has warmed.. finally.. as well as the passing of the first full moon in June..
So much to do.. now that the snow has melted.. and the weather is warming..
Ken, the girls and I have been busy… planning this coming years maze and garden, trimming 20 years off of old growth our homestead, loving the chickens, starting our seeds, hugging the horses, tending the bees and mending fences… which is a whole lot more fun than hauling water, and shoveling tunnels through the snow to the barn.
Splitting a Black locust with wedges and a hammer.
We had our friend Rowan, from Wooden Hands, stop by and show us how to split a large black locust log with a wedge and sledge hammer… it was a 75ft tree hit by lightening during one of last summers storms, a beast of a tree. And while we were skeptical.. it didn’t overload his truck when he hauled it home. Black locust logs are super heavy.. but it if you stick a log in the stove before you go to bed.. it will still be burning in the morning.
I’ve also been spending a few days here and there helping Chris “the Blueberry Guy” from The Mount Denson Blueberry Farm prune his bushes so we can have more yummy berries at the Maze this summer… because one box of fresh high bush blueberries is never enough..
A lantern found buried in the ground.
And when we aren’t chopping, fixing or digging.. we are finding treasure… as the saying goes.. one mans garbage is another man’s treasure.. or woman’s in this case, as I find most of the ‘treasure’. We discovered an old dump.. and are in the process of cleaning it up.. (and it’s a process..) So if you like Antique old bottles and metal watchamacallits.. we have a lot.. and I am willing to part with most of them.
We are never too busy, however, to take a break to go for our annual spring woods walk with the wee ones. This year we found Faeries. Real Faeries living deep in the woods.. beside a fallen tree.. down from the stream that runs under the road (watch out for the bump!!). They are currently looking for a new home.. a new garden or potted plant to live in and help tend.
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*Ok.. So.. we didn’t ‘find’ them.. The girls made them and will be selling them this summer at the Hantsport Pop-up Farmer’s Market, the Sunflower Maze, out our farm door, or by custom order.
Spring Update: Finding Hidden Treasures and Lost Faeries So much to do.. now that the snow has melted.. and the weather is warming.. Ken, the girls and I have been busy...
Just like the Mounce Mansion for sale across the river in Avondale, whose real estate listing recently went viral, every old house has a story.. a history.. hidden deep within it’s bones.. A mystery waiting.. revealing little bits of a time gone past as you strip down the walls of paper, or tear up that old linoleum flooring only to find a beautiful hardwood hidden underneath. While a new house may have it’s benefits.. I have always loved the older ones. Our big old historic homes have a beauty that only comes with age.. their character is etched into the floorboards.. the stairs are worn in just the right spot, and the doorframes have a groove perfect for your hand while you slide your barn boots off.
Last year, shortly after the maze was planted, we finally moved into a house we had been restoring for years. We started working on it when the Littles were really little, one so wee, she was still being incubated. We peeled back this Old house to it’s bones, building it back up again, with a little help from some friends and family (Thank you!!!). Now it’s a beautiful new’ish old house.
During the years while we hammered away.. we wondered.. finding a penny in the floorboards from 1921 .. or the old school project on Automobiles shoved in the wall in the pantry.. a single worn cadet button.. bits and pieces of pottery everywhere.. Or looking at the brass on the doors, and the design in the hardwood floor which is not simple.. nor basic like the ones in my mother’s old home.. which was an upper middle class turn of the century home. Someone had money when they built our house to spend the extra on the finishes. Who were they? Where did they come from? Did they have a connection to the Dakeyne Lad’s Club?
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Walking through an older home… doesn’t it make you wonder? Was it someone’s dream home? Why did they choose those colours on the wall.. or cover the floors? Why does every door have a lock? Who fixed that door handle with two spools of thread and a copper pipe? So many questions.. I wish I could open a door in this old house that would let me walk into the past. A door that lets me into Mrs. Rowes kitchen to ask her a million questions over a cup of hot tea, and a piece of homemade pie, while we watch the boys from the school down the road walked up the hill every morning with their lunches and tools, ready to learn so many new skills by building a model dairy farm. The old milk separator complete with it’s book still in the shed… waiting for me to pull it out and give it a try.
When we acquired the property, it’s last squire was Warren… He bought the place built for the Rowe’s and raised his family here.. but because we were knee deep in wood trim, and wall plaster, I wanted to know more about the people who built this homestead.. the original owners.. and what.. if any..their connection was to the Dakeyne Farm. Luckily for us, our neighbors from Oak Hollow Farm at the bottom of the hill had the answer tucked away. Warren’s Daughter had given them a copy of the property survey… their house is included on it, next to the old quarry, as in the past the property had been subdivided into two parcels. (If it was listed as ‘Old’ in the 20’s.. how old is it?)
The property named St. Brelades was purchased as several properties over the years.. from 1920 – 1926 to be combined into one large property neighboring The Dakeyne farm. Not much has changed on the land.. The garden on the map.. is still the garden.. we still use the pasture as pasture.. and if you look hard, you can find remnants of the orchards long since mowed down. A few varieties of apples and pear trees scattered here and there on the outskirts of what is now pasture and woods. The survey came in handy this year (Can’t thank you enough Jan & Anne!!), when we dug up the old waterline to replace our broken line to the well.. Our house was once connected to the cistern and windmill on the hill across from the maze, meaning it had running water pumped to the barns, house, and carriage shed. (and after this past year of no water while Kennie fixed the water line… I can’t imagine how happy Mrs. Rowe would have been to not have to carry water up hill to the livestock everyday.. I know I did a little dance for joy when we finally fixed ours) I even found the 16′ double maple listed on the survey with it’s monster mushroom still growing.. standing up against high winds, and cold nights for over a hundred years watching the fields around it change.
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Standing next to the double maple
That’s a golf ball
It’s bark
Our property was bought by Sir Jesse Boot & his wife Florence for Florence’s widowed sister in law (also named Florence) and her two boys Ernest and Colin. We have records at the farm along with photos of the boys time at the Dakeyne Farm.. Ernest is the one with the dog in the photo on the right standing in front of the porch at Dakeyne Farm. They came all the way from Jersey, which is where we get our property’s name St.Brelades.
Sir Jesse Boot, 1st Baron of Trent and his wife Florence (pictured below) were well known philanthropists in the Nottingham Area.. which is most likely how they met Oliver Hind and his Dakeyne Lads Club. Sir Jesse Boot was the Chemist to the Nation, and she was the daughter of a bookseller in St. Heliers, Jersey.. they married in 1886.
Together, they grew a large chain of chemist shops that still exist today, Boots. Sir Jesse Boot was knighted in 1909, and given the title of 1st Baron of Trent in 1917. His wife, Florence, took a great deal of interest in her husband’s business, created a lending library in all the Boots stores (at the back.. so you had to walk by all the merchandise to borrow a book), as well as taking care of her employees welfare, providing breakfast to their staff when she found out they were coming to work hungry every morning. She even took a large group of women employees to see the newly built Eiffel tower as part of one of her grand birthday celebrations.
Maybe, at a fancy dinner party, like the ones portrayed in the fictional T.V series Downton Abby, they had a converstation, over cigars and expensive whiskey, about a little farm school in Nova Scotia Oliver was building to help the boys in his club who wanted to farm and emigrate to Canada. Maybe.. a little later in a bedroom chamber on a large English Estate , Sir Jesse Boots mentioned his conversation to his wife,
Source:http://www.theislandwiki.org/index.php/Jesse_and_Florence_Boot
who thought it might be a great new start for her brother’s recently widowed wife, and two growing boys while at the same time helping Oliver Hind grow his project, and teach the boys how to build a model farm. Don’t you wish you could go back in time and find out? Be a little bee on a flower arrangement nearby? Maybe while she was visiting her nephews and their mother back home in St.Heliers, she passed along this conversation.. testing the waters to see if it might be something she would be interested in.. If only we could go back…
This little video is the best i can do.. to take a step back in time to visit with the character’s who build our house.. I imagine they were all present at this opening.. Oliver & Mary Hind, Alfred Davidson & his wife, as well. Titled ‘Nottingham’s New University, presented by Sir Jesse Boot at the cost of nearly 1 000 000 opened by H.M. The King in 1928’
Our house has three bedrooms.. one large Master, and two smaller.. perfect for Mrs. Rowe and her two boys. Ernest was the Older brother.. his name on the wall in the shed still. Colin the youngest.. I found the trunk he used to come over not far from Ernest’s graffiti. According to a post on NSRoots, Florence Boots gave our property to Ernest when she passed… another property in Middleton name St. Heliers was given to Colin. I have not found St. Heliers.. yet. All we know is that it was in Middleton. I’m sure if I sifted through some papers in a dusty basement somewhere near Middleton I would find it.. someday.. when I have more time. It would be interesting to compare the properties.. are the buildings similar? is the set up the same? was it a dairy farm? (If you know.. please feel free to message me)
We have a Record of Mrs. Rowe in our Dakeyne Farm Ledger from 1921.. (Dr = Debit & Cr = Credit)
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She had Guernseys as well… a little reminder of home? With the little I know of her.. as a mother myself.. I admire her quite a bit. After losing her husband, she left everything she knew and everyone she knew, packed up her two boys and moved across the ocean to start a brand new life.. a life that wasn’t going to be easy.. farming is hard work.. harder, I’m sure back then, then it is now.. with our new fangled automatic tractors, and pull behind potato diggers. She did not do this for herself.. she moved to give her boys the best chance she could. Oh the things Mother’s will do for their children.. I can see her sometimes.. in the field with her cows at the top of the hill, looking across the river thinking about a home she will never see again. I think she would have loved to see the farm now… the house restored, animals back in the barn.. chickens laying (we put the hen house in the spot on the survey that says Hen house.. guess we picked the right spot)., and roosters crowing. We’ll have to get a couple Guernseys for her.. and if we ever make the visit across the pond to see Nottingham, and Oliver’s old home.. a trip to St. Brelades & St.Heliers will have to be on our list of things to see and do
The Inside shortly before we finished:
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The house is now filled with our love and stuff.. Maybe one day I’ll post some photos of it all complete.. just as soon as I finish unpacking. Have a story about this house, or even the farm? I would love to hear it.. Email me (Jen) @ [email protected] or, if you are local, drop by for a cup of tea and a chat.. and maybe some eggs and honey too :)
The history of our farmstead and it's connection to St. Brelades & St. Heliers, by way of Sir Jesse Boots. Just like the Mounce Mansion for sale across the river in Avondale, whose real estate listing recently went viral, every old house has a story..
Merry Christmas & Happy Holidays!!
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… http://dakeynefarm.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/20161225_191303-1.mp4 May this holiday season sparkle and shine, may all of your wishes and dreams come true, and may you feel this happiness all year round. It is the season for…
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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 at repairing our broken waterline (the well is 1.7km from the house..) the girls and I worked towards preserving our harvest, digging into our farms history.. and getting ready for today’s craft fair at Falmouth District Elementary.
We bottled our very own honey, made a few new lotion bars, and turned a lot of Quince into a little jelly.
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Our Calendars are in!! Pick your copy up today!! We have them with us at the Falmouth Elementary Craft fair from 9-4 Today, selling honey, herbs, lotion bars and Calendars. First, before anything else, the Calendars are in!! Hot off the Repracorp Press!! Twelve Months of beautiful Sunflowers.
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 [email protected] by September 30th for a chance to be in our 2017 Sunflower Maze Calendar as well as two free passes to our 2017 Sunflower Maze.
We will post the pictures in one album on Facebook October 1st for everyone to vote with their ‘like’ button. Top 12 most liked photos will go in our calendar :)
*I know.. it’s hard to pick just two.… **It doesn’t have to be of a sunflower.. just your favorite from your visit with us. I know at least few of you took some really great kite photos..
The rules?
The photo must have been taken on our property (although.. we would be willing to let in pictures of artwork inspired by our Sunflowers and Farm)
Open to both Amateur and Professional photographers
To Edit.. or Not to edit.. that is your choice..
Photos must be in by deadline.. no late entrees allowed.. It just wouldn’t be fair to everyone else..
Just send two.. I know.. it’s hard.. I would have a hard time too narrowing down just two of my own.. so I understand.. really.. but please only send two.. I’d hate to pick the wrong ones for you.
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Lady bug
Growing up in a field of Sunflowers
Ready to open
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The Last Flower
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 you to everyone who stopped to visit our field of Sunflowers, we enjoyed our sharing our farm with you!!
So many beautiful moments happened.. like when the butterfly landed on my youngest child, and stayed with her for the entire Butterfly Release (She named it Orange)..
or when a lovely guest gave her last sunflower away to a little girl admiring it (She didn’t have to.. but she did & it was one of the most beautiful things I’ve had the opportunity to witnessed)…
or the time a young gentleman surprised his girl in our field of Sunflowers with a ring and a very important question (He even sent a photographer to catch it all)..
that time a giant Honey Bee showed up in our field (Thanks for the visit Ontario Bee Rescue)
or even that time a grandfather ‘tested’ three different kites before finding the right one for his granddaughter (she ended up coming down for her own).
So many moments.. so many memories made.
We loved Every Moment.
What was your favorite moment in our field?
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Now… to plan for next year… on to bigger, and better.. well.. hopefully taller and wetter…
We will also be working on the History of our farm over the Winter.. Are you a descendant of a Dakeyne Lad? We would love to hear from you.. we are currently compiling what we have.. and may have some photos, or information about your relatives stay at the farm.. or maybe you have something you can share
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or leave a comment below and we will be in touch
We love hearing stories about time spent on the Farm :)
The Last Petal has Fallen.. Thank you for supporting our family farm!! It's always sad when we close for the season.. the flowers bowing their heads, with a couple shrivelled up petals holding on.