While living and working away for 10 years, feeling homesick and burnt out, we started making efforts to move closer to our family and a more intentional style of living. After five moves, two career changes, the arrival or our first babies (Theodora and the bees), and our final move home: it is with humble, and grateful hearts that we share our Tuckamore journey.
MEET THE FAMILY
Samantha & Lloyd
Samantha and Lloyd are homesteaders, and apiarists. Samantha worked in social work and education before becoming a mum and is now leaning into life with bees, family, and community work. Lloyd, once a Royal Canadian Mounted Police Officer, has completed law school at Dalhousie University and was called to the Nova Scotia Bar in June 2021. During the down season, you can find Lloyd completing home projects and general ‘tinkering’.
We came to keep by way of following our daydreams. Initially an ‘eventually, when we retire’, plan, the arrival of our first born, Theodora, ignited our sense of time and provided the push needed to make the leap into the apiary world.
The farmhouse build began in spring, 2019, aligning with the arrival of our first bees. It was a busy season of firsts with many lessons. As we enter our fifth season, we move forward through our community work via Tuckamore Foundation, and the build of our first shop and honey processing facility.
The focus of Tuckamore is on the collective; kinships of family, friends, community and environment. We strive to embrace life’s journey, slow our pace, enjoy and create our world and spaces, and celebrate with others the warmth the collective builds.
