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We are a small, family-run apiary and market garden, managing around 200 hives and garden of about 2 acres.
We are very passionate about sustainability, knowing where the food we eat comes from and how it is grown!
We are Dayna and Gabriel Donald(Husband and Wife) and our two young sons, Finn and Noah. Gabriel grew up keeping bees with his father, who was a hobby beekeeper, and at a young age started taking over his hives. When we met in 2013, Gabriel was managing about 50 hives and had been working for a commercial beekeeper in our area for close to 10 years. We took our passions, drive, love for nature/food and hard work and slowly grew our business into what it is today.
Set in the beautiful Southern Georgian Bay area, our gardens are filled with perennial fruits, herbs and medicinal plants as well as a small permaculture orchard where we grow over 30 different types of fruit trees, shrubs and vines. We also run a CSA style market garden offering 3 season(s) of CSA options, supply local restaurants/producers with weekly in season produce and attend the Owen Sound Farmer’s Market weekly (year-round 8-12:30 with our honey, beeswax candles and different hive products) with a large/diverse selection of produce from May-Christmas. Now we are farming two pieces of land, Gabe’s parents’ family farm (which we have for 10 years) and for the past two seasons another beautiful piece of land just a few minutes drive away! All our practices in our bee yards and gardens are managed organically, chemical free and done with the bees, plants and mother natures best intentions.
We feel extremely grateful to be able to do what we love, have our sons growing up by our sides and be able to educate and feed our community and get to learn from, work with and be inspired by nature daily.
Photos by Christa Treadwell (@christathephotographer)