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Bees, Chickens & Birds

Norfolk County provides a unique opportunity to collaborate and connect with local businesses. Being a diverse agricultural tourism area, we tap into many thriving local businesses to provide solutions, create partnerships and fill a need in each other’s businesses.

This held true when we realized in order to supply enough

fruit for cider & grape production our orchard & vineyard

would need some help from a very tiny solution. A local

apiary, Hunt’s Honey, has provided approximately 20 hives

within the vineyard and orchard. Benefits are full circle. A

nice steady honey supply for our winery family and all the

pollen one little bee can consume from our vineyard and

orchard. With the addition of planting wildflowers around

the property, we are feeding these bees, while they take

very good care of our farm.

After expanding the vineyard to over 3 times its size in 2017

we knew an IPM (integrated pest management) system was

needed. This created an opportunity to introduce more

chickens to the property. We also partnered with the ALUS

Program who have provided blue bird, brown bat and

kestrel habitats to help to create an ecosystem approach at

managing our pests.