“The farmer’s son may have chosen a different path than the generations before him, but he still understands the importance of building a life based on hard work, authenticity and the honest values demonstrated by his parents and grandparents. Instilled at an early age, these traits just stick when you’re from a farm”
 
It’s hard to believe just how quickly this season’s lilacs have come and gone. Months of waiting and looking out our back kitchen window each morning waiting for a glimpse of a bud, followed by a few weeks of the most intense + fragrant purple flowers and then BAM, suddenly it’s the middle of July. If you’re like us + still need that fix or lilac, you’re in luck! Slow Sundays from our summer collection is the perfect blend of fresh lilac, sweet pea (another fave of ours) and prairie wild flowers. It’s light and fresh and the perfect scent for these warm summer days ahead. _ Find at stockists across the prairies and beyond including our friends at @pineridgehollow, @prairiecollectivecompany, @countryandcohomedecor and @forkstradingcompany. Find a complete listing of our amazing stockists at www.farmerssonco.com/stockists
With so many unique scent options in the Farmer’s Son Co. range, we can never seem to light up just one type of candle. Whether it’s around home or the workshop, there’s something fun about pairing up different scents from our signature and seasonal ranges. Be it Campfire paired with Back Forty, Amber + Sandalwood with our Patchouli + Tobacco candle or the awesome pairing of Morning. Calm with Cedar + Oak Moss. Are you a one at a time or multiple candle burner? What are some of your favourite scents to layer together? _ Find our summer seasonal collection in our 8oz glassware, as well as our 4oz travel tins, perfect for throwing in your bag on the way to the lake at select stockists across Canada 🇨🇦 as well as in our online shop! Enjoy free shipping anywhere in Canada on orders over $60.00.
Friday feels. 🌲🌲🌲 _ After a week of pouring + testing a pile of new pieces that we’ve been working away on, we snuck away from the workshop today and had the best adventure! We headed out of Winnipeg to meetup with a few of the amazing shops carrying our line, drank a pile of coffee, found a tag sale with a pile of fun stuff and even managed to sneak in a quick hike. _ Check out our stories tomorrow to see who we visited, and to add their shops to your list of “must visit places” this summer! _ Tomorrow we’re catching up with friends for brunch, spending some time working on some neglected flowerbeds then tackling some design work for something fun that we’re cooking up for yah. What are you getting up to this weekend?
Anyone else ready for what’s looking like an awesome summer weekend ahead? From the very first pop up market where we introduced Patchouli + Tobacco, we’ve loved your response to this scent and everything that you’ve said! From “this is my summer scent...” to “this smells like that one summer fling that somebody knows about...” to “this is me and my friends camping!” We’ve blended our deep, earthy + slightly musky patchouli with an amazingly rich pipe tobacco that you’ll fall head over heels for. With equal parts deep and dark with a richness and spice we can’t wait for you to explore this fragrance this summer! _ Available select stockists including @blackmarketprovisions, @oldstownsquare, + @forkstradingcompany as well as in our online shop!
We don’t give our Homestead candle near the attention that it deserves. One of our most complex profiles, Homestead’s a rich mix of aged leather reminiscent of an old waxed leather hat, a good stiff belt of whiskey and just the right amount of black pepper to keep things interesting. This is that perfect scent for those endless summer nights out on the sun porch, for those nights around the table at the cabin or those late evenings when you make it in the door after a long day’s work in the fields. One light of Homestead and you’ll be thinking of it for days to come. _ Find at select stockists across Canada! We’ve tagged just a handful of great locally owned shops where you can find a selection of Farmer’s Son Co. candles! Checkout www.farmerssonco.com/stockists to find a complete listing.
With its notes of dark roast coffee, espresso, a hint of hazelnut and woodsmoke, Camp Brew’s that perfect scent for your lazy Sunday! With 9oz or pure soy wax giving you over 50 hours of burn-time, you’ll be dreaming of backwoods camping percolator brew for days. Plus, we handcraft each candle in our exclusive rustic enamel camp cups that are perfect for your next backwoods camping or camping adventure! _ Find Camp Brew at our stockist partners across the prairies or shop online anytime at www.farmerssonco.com!
During the early days of homesteading, settlers were granted a quarter section of land which amounted to 160 acres. Each quarter section was divided into four sections, which were generally referred to as the two front forty and two the back forty. The term stuck around with many who grew up on a family farm being able to quickly reference their own back forty memories - “The cows got out (always the cows) and into the wheat on the back forty” “He’s out picking stones (so many stones) on the back forty” Our take on Back Forty sees us couple a rich blend of young balsam & paper birch, blending them a fresh breeze coming from the north as we wander to the back edges of the family land, pooch at our side, over the hills to check the fence line, make sure the cows are staying where they ought to on the land that was homesteaded so long ago. _ Find Back Forty at stockists across the prairies in our 4oz travel tins and 8oz glassware, or shop our website anytime at www.farmerssonco.com
Jake’s here to say “happy Canada Day y’all!” 🇨🇦
We’re coming away from our week in Mexico City feeling so dang inspired and excited for what’s to come! This past week’s been a whirlwind of appointments, exploring the city from one end to the other, wandering the corridors of markets (and possibly getting slightly lost), meeting shopkeepers + makers, discovering fun lines that we can’t get enough of, making connections for the future, along with possibly eating our weight in the most amazing churros from @churreriaelmoro (the diet starts Tuesday). One of our favourite finds of this trip was @utilitariomexicano, an amazing general store of sorts offering a beautifully curated mix of home goods + decor pieces sourced from small mom + pop factories & artisans across Mexico. We’re going to be daydreaming about all the pieces we couldn’t fit in our suitcases for many days to come! We can’t wait to get back into the workshop to start putting ideas into motion. We’ve got a pile of fun up our sleeves! You better believe that we’re ready to get to work!
I feel so dang lucky that I’ve been able to grow Farmer’s Son Co. from some chicken scratch drawings and a few dollars to the little company that it is today. Over the past three years I’ve met so many amazing folks - makers, shop owners, pop up organizers, sales folks who are passionate about selling Canadian made goods + you folks, the best customers a guy could ask for! It’s because of these fine folks + their support and love for the line that I get to toss on my boots each day and craft product, ship product to folks, travel meet + talk with so many amazing individuals; exploring ways to grow this venture that I never thought would have been possible even a few months back. Small business and entrepreneurship are in my blood. Growing up on a family farm we worked like hell + got creative. I get my work ethic and pride in what I do from my folks. I might have been a terrible farmer but I get the passion that they had for their little farm and am bringing that drive + passion to this role! I stand for local business. Local shops are the backbone of the communities that we live in + I do my damndest to support them. It’s truly been an honour and privilege to have had so many folks stumble across us and say “hey, I like your line, let’s talk.” Carson Arthur, Canada’s premier gardening expert did just that! He and his husband Kevin recently embarked on the opening of a years long passion project to create a new kind of garden centre using Carson’s experiences as an author, TV personality, and go to guy for all things green. The result of which, Carson’s Garden + Market located in beautiful Hillier, ON is filled with an awesome selection of tools, seeds, plants + goods for the home and yard, including the complete Farmer’s Son Co. line! Carson found us through the power of social media and the rest is history! We’re in great company along an amazing selection of lines that Carson and his team have handpicked from across Canada and beyond! _ If you’re exploring Prince Edward County this summer, visit Carson’s Garden + Market at 1317 Wilson Road in beautiful Hillier! _ Pic by @microprosienna, the supplier of the wood used by Carson + team during construction.