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.
For Spring: Bringing everything necessary to start seedlings, Jolene can show your students how to start seeds and share the process of a plant’s life cycle; making many connections along the way: sustainable food systems, nature, the environment and how these connect to healthy humans and a healthy planet. If microscopes are available in the classroom, Jolene can bring already sprouted seeds for students to view under magnifica- tion, while learning how seeds sprout and grow.
For Autumn: The fall is harvest time and Jolene can bring the bounty of the garden into the classroom. Students will learn how vegetables grow and the connections between local food systems, nature, the environment and communities.
If kitchen facilities are available, Jolene can share a simple reci- pe with your students, using produce from the garden.
All activities and presentations can be tailored to match your class’s curriculum.
About our Farm
Spruce Cottage Farm consists of a large market garden as well as two greenhouses. Jolene grows and sells bedding plants in the spring and then farms the market garden for produce sales summer to fall. She has over twenty years of growing experience.
Spruce Cottage Farm uses many principles of sustainable, regenerative and organic growing practices and has been in operation in the Yukon for eleven years.
Livestock & Crops
- Vegetables
- Herbs
- Cut Flowers
- Bedding Plants
Contact :
867-335-9769
