Farm Profiles
Circle D Ranch
Barbara & Bill Drury
Offering farm tours - located on Alaska Highway (west of Whitehorse)
Contact
867-668-1045
Why visit Circle D Ranch?
Located on the banks of the Takhini River, Circle D Ranch is an organic farm where students can interact with a variety of animals and cultivated plants. Students will have the opportunity to meet our cows and their calves, feed the pigs, prepare compost while learning about its benefits, and plant seeds in plant pods they have made themselves, so that every child can take home their own freshly planted seeds. We can go on a fun walk to the haskap berry field and see the horses grazing in the pasture along the way. Lunch can be enjoyed under cover or by an outdoor fire pit, and another good walk to view an extensive beaver dam network brings the immediacy of the wilderness and how we interact with wildlife into full focus.
Fox Ridge Farm
Kathy Prichard & Collin Remillard
Offering Farm Tours - Located on Takhini Hot Springs Rd
Contact
867-334-4473
Why Visit Fox Ridge Farm?
Our farm has pigs, chickens, turkeys, ducks, goats, a donkey and a mule. Students will see and interact with the animals as well as learn lots of fun facts about them. A frequent highlight for the kids is feeding the pigs and chickens food from the Loop program, which diverts Superstore’s food waste from the landfill to local farms. We will have interactive activities for kids (i.e. learning about products that are made from pigs, and many more). They can also learn about various aspects of life on the farm, such as how we compost our manure and our animal husbandry practices.
Visites peuvent être disponibles en français
Happy Little Hobby Farm
Nathan and Jennifer Sugden 
Offering farm tours and classroom visits - located in Haines Junction
Contact
867-689-6244
Why visit Happy Little Hobby Farm?
In the spring, we could visit your classroom to talk about hatching eggs, lambing, and kidding. Your class could incubate eggs for us and then bring the chicks back to the farm. On the farm, kids can interact with lambs, kids (goats), alpacas, chickens, and horses. We have two friendly dogs as well. We can talk about the composting cycle: how composted farm materials can later be used to feed the gardens, which in turn feed the animals. We can also give examples of how to sheer an animal and show what raw wool looks and feels like before becoming clothing. We can accommodate different learning objectives depending on the age of the students.
In the fall, we can talk about animal husbandry for the animals we breed. We can also talk about the processing of animals and how local farmers humanely dispatch their animals.
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 uniquement - Tours available in French only)
Contact
867-633-4201
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, en plus des porcelets et poussins. Passer du temps dans la nature et sur la plage au bord du Lac Laberge
Little Flower Farms
Andrea & Michel Lefebvre
Offering Farm Tours - 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 & Nadja Salzberg
Offering Farm Tours and Classroom Visits - Located in Mayo
Contact
867-333-0160
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.
The Herbal Hearth (Nomadic Harvests)
Offering Farm Tours and Classroom Visits - Located in Mt. Lorne
Why visit the Herbal Hearth?
Located on the banks of the Wheaton River and surrounded by mountains, the Herbal Hearth invites students to connect with both wild and cultivated land. Interactive tours of the berry and vegetable gardens explore garden ecology, edible weeds, permaculture principles, and food sovereignty. Sustainable harvest of Boreal plants from the gardens and surrounding forest can also be included. Possible activities include garden bed preparation, planting, compost making, worm feeding, harvesting and quiet time by the river, depending on the group and season. We are passionate teachers and happy to tailor the tour to your curriculum.
We also offer classroom visits with activities on vegetable fermentation, herbal preparations, worm composting or plant ID.
Tumbleweed Acres
Pat Maltais
Offering Farm Tours - Located on Takhini Hot Springs Rd
Contact:
867-332-7797
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).
