Farm Profiles
Fox Ridge Farm
Kathy Prichard & Collin Remillard
Offering Farm Tours and Classroom Visits - Located on Takhini Hot Springs Rd
Why Visit Fox Ridge Farm?
Our farm has a wide variety of animals that kids can see, help feed and interact with. We have a large number of pigs of different ages, chickens, turkeys and goats. Kids can learn about the Loop program with Super Store that diverts food waste from the landfill to local farms. They can also learn about how we compost our manure, as well as our animal husbandry practices.
Visites peuvent être disponibles en français
Heart Bar Ranch
Gail Riederer
Offering Farm Tours and Classroom Visits - Located in Ibex Valley
Why Visit Heart Bar Ranch?
Heart Bar Ranch is a mixed farm in Ibex Valley with cows, chickens, horses and forage farming. Students can see the different kinds of livestock raised here. Students can learn about beef, chicken and egg production as well as learn about the challenges of growing forage for a mixed farm. Tours can be tailored to curriculum requirements. Heart Bar Ranch also cooperates with classes to hatch chicks in class then come see them at the farm later in the spring.
LendrumRoss Farm et Sarah's Harvest
Brian Lendrum, Susan Ross & Sarah Ouellette
Nous offrons des visites de la ferme - Située au Lac Laberge
(Visites disponibles en français seulement - Tours available in French only)
Pourquoi visiter LendrumRoss Farm?
Visiter notre nouvelle serre et notre jardin, identifier les plantes et constater tout ce dont elles ont besoin, examiner le compost, et planter des graines pour les élever à la maison. Rencontrer et nourrir des poules qui pondent une belle variété d’oeufs. Passer du temps dans la nature et sur la plage au bord du Lac Laberge.
Little Flower Farms
Andrea & Michel Lefebvre
Offering Farm Tours and Classroom Visits - Located on Takhini Hot Springs Rd
Why visit Little Flower Farms?
Our family farm is a homestead. We are working to cultivate and nurture the land in such a way that the life of the soil, the animals and the plants all work together, feeding and enriching the life of each. Students will get a chance to feed our goats and chickens and collect eggs. We can share our garden and students can help out where the season permits. We can also look at how rural composting differs from the city compost, working with it while visiting the garden.
Northern Blue Bird Farm - Mayo, YT
Jens-Uwe Wirth & Nadia Salzberg
Offering Farm Tours - Located in Mayo
Why Visit Northern Blue Bird Farm?
Northern Blue Bird Farm is a dynamic farm with many different types of livestock and crops. Students can watch and pet a variety of animals, collect eggs from our laying hens, help with the gardening and learn how plants grow in our greenhouse.
Spruce Cottage Farm
Jolene Billwiller
Offering Classroom Visits - Haines Junction, the Kluane Region and the North Alaska Highway
Why invite Spruce Cottage Farm into your classroom?
Jolene has a passion for growing plants and vegetables! She loves to share her knowledge and enthusiasm with others and would be delighted to come to your classroom; to explore seeds, plants and locally grown produce with your students.
Sunnyside Farm
Krista and Jason Roske
Offering Farm Tours & Classroom Visits - Located in Ibex Valley
Why Visit Sunnyside Farm?
With mountain views in three directions, and frequent visits by moose and lynx, our farm is an inspiring place to live and work. We have lots of space for students to experience nature and explore the differences between farm land and boreal forest. Students can watch a cow milking demo, try milking the “rubber glove” cow, learn about dairy processing, interact with dairy calves and chickens and learn how to care for them. They can also seed, transplant, and harvest vegetables and learn about garden maintenance.
Tumbleweed Acres
Pat Maltais
Offering Farm Tours - Located on Takhini Hot Springs Rd
Why visit Tumbleweed Acres?
Students can visit Tumbleweed Acres to see my Icelandic sheep flock. They can interact with the ewes and lambs by feeding them bread or produce and can also take a hike around the property to see what all the sheep eat from the forest. We can also roast smokies over the fire pit (weather permitting).
Wheaton River Gardens
Shiela Alexandrovich & Jalfred Deichsel
Offering Farm Tours & Classroom Visits - Located in Mt Lorne
Why visit Wheaton River Gardens?
Wheaton River Gardens is a working example of nature’s circles: animal waste to compost to gardens to animal and people food. It is a chance to meet a community of animals, plants and people that live together and depend on each other for well being. It is an exploration of working with nature as our guide, and trying to be respectful of the needs of the planet as well.
Visites disponibles en français.