The home of Campbell's Honey is a Centennial Farm, situated on Campbell Rd. in Northumberland County, Ontario Canada.
My Great Grandfather was born in Scotland in the mid 1800's, and as a young man was involved in a sexual misadventure which caused his embarrassed parents to place him on board ship with a one-way ticket to the new world. George Campbell arrived in Canada and worked for 2 years to save enough money to send for his wife-to-be and young child. After their marriage they had several more children, one of which was my Grandfather, Adam Campbell.
For a time after Adam married he farmed just north of lake Ontario in the Oak Hills. In the spring of 1905 he purchased the farm where we live today, and his second son Percy, was born in the farm-house in October of that year. Twenty eight years later, to the month, I was born to Percy and Ora Campbell, in the same room of the same farmhouse. >>
My father had a mixed farm with horses, pigs chickens and dairy cows. After I married in 1955 I took over the farm and soon had a herd of pure-bred Aberdeen Angus cattle.
It was only after my brother and oldest son began to keep a few hives of honeybees for a hobby, that I became interested. They had a few colonies and were having so much fun. So I bought some too, and then we were all in the honey business together. That was about thirty years ago, and although we miss my brother, who passed away a few years ago, we are still having fun keeping honeybees and making some of the best honey in the world.
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