Farm Fun

Winter Frolic at Ross Farm Museum – what a beautiful way to spend a family day in January! Enjoy a sleigh ride or sip a delicious cup of hot chocolate made over an open fire. Visit the farm workshop and sample some homemade ice ...Read More

Planning the best birthday parties are seriously, a pretty big deal. Birthdays are special days, especially when you are still in the years of counting the ‘halves’! If we forget to add that detail when telling someone the age of our child, we are ...Read More

There’s nothing better than local, fresh produce and in Nova Scotia, there’s no better time to enjoy the abundance of tasty treats than the fall harvest. Noggins Corner Farm is open year round but the sweetest time of the year is when the apple ...Read More

There’s nothing like the juicy crunch of a freshly picked apple, and no better feeling than picking that apple yourself! With so many plentiful orchards, families in Nova Scotia are spoilt for choice when it comes for places to go apple-picking. To accompany the ...Read More

Looking for some outdoor family fun? At Hatfield Farm, you can take a wagon or sleigh ride adventure into the woods, with departures every Saturday and Sunday at 11:00 am. The experience lasts 2 hours and includes the petting pen, wagon or sleigh ride, ...Read More

The first time I went to the Hatfield Farm Weekend Family Round up, my husband and I brought our docile, well-behaved 2-year old. “Why am I signing a waiver?” I asked the cowgirl at the desk, “I’m sure she’s not going to fall off ...Read More

Ross Farm Museum is located on highway #12 in New Ross, Nova Scotia, just 15 minutes from the Lighthouse route. Ross Farm Museum is a living, working, farm museum depicting 150 years of agriculture in Nova Scotia.  In Rosebank Cottage, the original home of the ...Read More