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Summer Rain Farm is looking forward to having plenty of honey available this year. As a beekeeper, we know everything depends on Mother Nature. The bees handle every thing from weather, flower availability, wind, pest pressure and of course help from the beekeeper with space. The brood boxes are on the bottom and are where the queen bee lays her eggs to build up the hive. Each year the hive goes from the over wintered bees of a few thousand to up to 60 thousand during peak p

The farm stand has been up and running since Mother's Day weekend! We started with just Friday afternoons and Saturday morning. We are now open most days of the week for flowers! Farm stand Wrapped Bouquets Our bouquets are a mixture of focal, spike, airy and foliage florals. We have dahlias, zinnias, sunflowers, gladiolus, sweet peas, cosmos, celosia and mints this summer season. The colours are amazing and the fragrance is delightful! Wrapped bouquets Honey, beeswax and li

Summer Rain Farm stand goals for this year are to have enough items to draw a crowd to our farm. I’ve had this goal in the back of my mind since we started having bees in 2015. We have 2 hives of bees that gather nectar from nearby wildflowers. Summer Rain Farm harvests the honey every fall making sure to leave enough for the bees to overwinter. Our honey is delicious and we put it in 1 kg and 500 ml jars. Now I’m ready to bring something of even more value to the farm. Summ

Coming this year we will have a lovely farm stand at the roadside to sell our farm fresh eggs, local honey and new for us beautiful home grown flowers for market bouquets! Follow us on Instagram for times and dates! @summerrainfarmstand

If you have raised meat chickens , you can raise turkeys! They take a little longer to get to butcher weight but they also grow to 15 to 24 pounds of delicious turkey meat. Turkey poults and meat chicks together Ordering your turkey poults We actually recommend you start your turkeys at the same time as your meat birds. The turkey poults will follow the meat chicks to the water and feed therefore this helps them learn faster. We start 5 turkey poults with our 25 meat chicks