From our family farm to your table

Our honey is diligently produced by our hardworking bees that forage the Acadian wildflowers of Southeastern New Brunswick. It is our pleasure to share with you this wonderful nectar.

Enjoy Real Honey

You will love our honey. All products are harvested within our family farm business and so is our deliciously harvested honey.

All Natural

100% Pure

No Additives

Naturally Healthy

Family Farmed

OUR PRODUCTS

Honey 375mL
$10.00

Honey 750mL
$18.00

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What our clients say

I have been buying Jean’s honey for a few years now. Great taste and all natural! I can’t keep it in the house because my kids keep taking it every time they come home!

Jake Bell

Adorable label and supporting a local bee keeper! The honey is great in my tea and delicious drizzled on Brie cheese. Purchasing is easy and Jean is friendly and knowledgeable. Highly recommend this product!

Jenna Bamford

I just want to thank you for the best honey I have ever tasted! Absolutely Delicious! I now only use your honey in all my recipes and for a substitute for granulated sugar in my morning coffee and my afternoon teas.

Geneviève Braun

About Us

How did we ever come up with the name Jardins LeBourg Gardens for our small enterprise? It all started with our gardens that are comprised of perennial berries and vegetables, and annuals of course. The name LeBourg is a combination of Donna’s last name LeBlanc and Jean’s last name Bourgeois. With LeB from LeBlanc and Bourg from Bourgeois, we have LeBourg. Being strong believers in bilingualism we added the French equivalent of Gardens: Jardins.

Welcome to Jardins LeBourg Gardens.

History

It was in 2013, following my retirement from the Canadian Armed Forces, that I returned to Acadia while Donna was still teaching. Having lots of time on my hands, and having acquired land in Petit-Cap years ago, I slowly spent more time there. Following the soil analysis of our fields in 2014, we applied ourselves to planting various perennials such as purple and green asparagus, gooseberries, red and black currants, three different kinds of rhubarb, horseradish and Jerusalem artichokes and we sell all our surplus when in season. We even planted several apple cider trees but the white-tailed deer love them just a little too much! Coming back from Australia in 2017, after a year there, we acquired beehives and we started a vineyard with table grapes such as the Louise Swanson, Somerset and others to make our wine, like the Marquette, Radisson, Petite Pearl and Frontenac Blanc. We are proud that our gardens are only enriched with compost.

Our last acquisition at Jardins LeBourg Gardens was in 2021, when we acquired Chantecler eggs which we incubated. We raise our hens for their eggs that we love and our customers appreciate.

We never really know what the future holds for us, but we do know there will be other projects and that we will gradually increase the number of beehives on our bee yards and that we will continue to sell our honey with pride and eventually process the collected beeswax.

Walk with us and together we’ll see what the future holds.

Biography – Jean Bourgeois

In 2013, after 29 years of service with the Canadian Armed Forces Chaplaincy, I asked myself the following question: what am I to do next? Always having had a love for the land, and since we had land in Petit-Cap, we started enriching our field and planting berries and perennial vegetables. It wasn’t until 2016 that beekeeping became a passion. That year, Donna had the opportunity to teach in Australia and in the meantime, I got to know a few beekeepers that were patient, as they taught me the basics. Back in Acadia, we bought our first beehives for Jardins LeBourg Gardens in the spring of 2017. Applying myself to beekeeping with enthusiasm and following the advice and wisdom of experienced beekeepers, I have never ceased to be amazed! To be of assistance to our bees, we also plant fields of clovers and other pollinators that they transform into succulent honey.

Our first four beehives have become twenty beehives in two apiaries. The world of beekeeping is at times a mystery, you can never really know what bees have in store for us, but we know that they will always surprise us and have our full admiration.

Biography – Donna LeBlanc

I have taught French immersion for many years in both Nova Scotia and New Brunswick and throughout those years, I have always strived to lead a healthy lifestyle. Living in the countryside allows us that. Here we can freely take our daily walks on the beach or in the woods. An important element of any lifestyle is what we eat. Therefore, we try to grow to the best of our ability our berries and vegetables in our own gardens. I leave it to Jean to look after our hives, that being said, it is my pleasure to find recipes, to try them out and to share them. My passion is knitting, I am never short of projects and I appreciate good quality wools, dyed with care. There are never two seasons alike and each year we try to improve our lifestyle with healthy habits that we greatly appreciate.

RECIPES

Breakfast Kick-Start

Ingredients

  • 3 tblsp honey
  • 300ml Milk
  • 300ml Natural Yogurt
  • 2 Oranges

Method

  1. Squeeze oranges, making sure to remove any pips.
  2. Place ingredients together in a blender & process until smooth.
  3. Serve in a tall glass.

Easy
5 Min.
Serves 2

Honey-glazed Baked Ham

Ingredients

  • 1 Leg ham
  • Cloves
  • Pineapple slices
  • Glazed cherries

Glaze

  • ½ cup honey
  • 1 tsp dry mustard
  • ¼ cup brown sugar
  • 1 tsp soy sauce
  • 1 tbsp brown vinegar

Method

  1. Remove the skin from ham, cut surface fat into a diamond pattern.
  2. Mix glaze ingredients until combined.
  3. Brush ham well with glaze and brush frequently while cooking.
  4. Cook in moderate to hot oven for approximately 30 minutes or until ham is golden brown.
  5. Decorate with cloves, pineapple pieces and glazed cherries.

Easy
40 Min.
Serves 8

Baked Apples

Ingredients

  • 4 Apples
  • 1 Clove
  • 1 tblsp honey
  • Piece of butter

Syrup

  • 1 tblsp honey
  • ½ cup hot water

Method

  1. Peel and core apples, place in small baking dish, fill centres with honey, 1 clove and a piece of butter on top.
  2. Make syrup and pour into baking dish.
  3. Bake, basting occasionally.

Easy
30 Min.
Serves 4

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CONTACT

Jardins LeBourg Gardens
Petit-Cap, NB

(506) 875-8344
jardinslebourg@gmail.com

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