ALCLA Native Plants is a native plant nursery founded in 1992 and operating in Carstairs since 2023.

We offer genetically diverse, sustainably sourced native plants and seeds—featuring over 200 species of wildflowers, grasses, and shrubs native to Alberta, on Treaty 7 Territory. We also provide custom growing and educational services.

Native plants are climate-adapted, drought-tolerant once established, and essential for supporting pollinators, birds, and other wildlife. They’re also stunningly beautiful—and many have edible and medicinal properties.

All of our plants and seeds are free of chemical pesticides.

Come visit us!

Take a tour of our seed collection garden, greenhouses, and nursery. Learn about native plants, their benefits, and how to grow them. You're welcome to browse the nursery and purchase plants on site.

TOUR SCHEDULE (30-45 min)
Sat & Sun
10:30 AM
12:30 PM
2:30 PM

Free Admission for all!

Experience Alberta vibrant agritourism culture at Bar U Ranch National Historic Site during Alberta Open Farm Days.  Explore the historic ranch, meet the animals, chat with knowledgeable interpreters, and discover the traditions and practices that have shaped agriculture in Alberta for generations.  It is an authentic, firsthand experience that connects past and present - and brings the story of Alberta's working landscapes to life

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We are an Alberta Cottage Winery

We grow all of our own fruit for use in making of the wines
We make 4 wines, The Barb (rhubarb wine) The Rhuby (rhubarb strawberry wine) The Other Red (raspberry wine) and The Jewel (sour cherry wine)

Activities:

• You can participate in mini tours of the winery facility (free)
• Enjoy meeting our animals sheep, chickens, donkeys and cows (free)
• Purchase a glass of wine and stroll through our Barrtizan Market that will include many unique vendors
• Bottles of the wines will be available for purchase
• Food trucks will be available
• Washrooms will be onsite

Want a Fresh, Fun Way to Explore Brooks This Summer?

Bikes and Baskets at the Brooks Farmers’ Market blends cycling, local food, and nature exploration of the Eastern Irrigation District.

1 Participants can ride their bikes to the Brooks Farmers’ Market or rent an e-bike at the market.

2 Shop the market to fill their "picnic basket" Backpacks with market goodies using Market Money.

3 Embark on a scenic self-guided ride to Kinbrook Island Provincial Park. Along the way new Kinbrook Connection Pathway.

Welcome to our U-Pick!

You are welcome to take a self directed tour of our fruit, veggie and flower u-pick farm.  Pick your way through our beautiful gardens! Produce is neatly labeled to better understand what the plants are.

We are a family farm growing U pick fruits and vegetables since 2009 starting with our first crop of strawberries which promptly got hit with hail!  Days later there was a strong scent of berry juice, shock and heartbreak in the air.  What an education!

Crops can be gone in minutes - frost on blossoms, drought and heat, hail and snow, it's crazy. What a business to be in!  But it's not always horrible and we enjoy nurturing seedlings and seeing them mature into something people enjoy picking.

After a long Alberta winter's wait, the rush of Spring begins with planning and planting, tending, weeding, watering and sky watching.  Cool Alberta nights produce the best tasting crops!  And when it’s time, the invitation goes out via word of mouth and social media to come over and pick, pick pick!  In 2023 we added more picking pleasure for our customers:  a u pick flower garden!

Even though we are open to the public from 7am to 8pm everyday during the production months, we thank Alberta Open Farm Days and all the advertiser’s for extending an extra invitation to come explore rural Alberta and Billyco Junction Gardens where we can be found tucked right between our major urban centres.

Happy discovery, see you here!

We are excited to welcome you to our home at Christy Creek Honey for Alberta Open Farm Days!

Agritourism Alberta Farm of the Year (2026)

Free Activities:

• Watch bees at work in our observation hive
• Enjoy flowers and the peaceful county setting
• Browse unique gifts and honey products in our bee boutique
• Bring a picnic and a blanket and stay awhile
• Check out our new bee dome.
• Play some games or make a craft (some activities are by donation)

Looking for more?

We offer year-round experiences including:

• Honey extraction tours
• Beeswax and candle making workshops
• Private tours
• Visit our website for more info

Whether you are joining us for the first time or planning a return visit, we're buzzing with ways to connect you with the magic of bees and the beauty of the countryside!

Custom Woolen Mills is a small, family owned and operated, woolen mill!

We are located between the towns of Carstairs and Linden, Alberta. Using industrial revolution era machinery, we transform raw sheep's wool and the fibre from alpacas, llamas, goats, and bison, into finished products like hand-knitting yarns and woolen socks.

Join us for the opportunity to see some of the machinery in operation, meet our sheep and llama, shop our little store, and participate in a woolen craft for all ages!

Our family is excited to have you visit us on our 5th annual Alberta Open Farm Days!

Mark will bring you on a walking tour of our farm where you will learn how we grow, harvest and cure our garlic. Of course there will be some available for purchase in the store. Don't forget to bring a cooler! There's lots of goodies in our farm store.

While you wait for the tour to begin, enjoy some refreshments and have a game of cornhole. The kids will enjoy hanging out at the craft table or visiting with our animals. We have an alpaca, bunny, potbellied pig, ponies, and lots of laying hens!

To find us, Google Map 'Deep Roots Garlic Farm'

SCHEDULE FOR SUNDAY:

• Guided Walking Tours promptly at 11 am, 1 pm and 3 pm
• Hot Dog Lunch 11am until 2pm (cash)
• Lemonade Stand
• Kids Crafting Table

Let us know you are coming!

Welcome to our Farm!

Six generations of family farming later, we operate a mixed farm consisting primarily of vegetables, cattle, and traditional grain crops. We are known for Alberta's largest asparagus patch, freshly hand-picked super sweet garden peas, and lots of other great vegetables.

We are offering free tours* to our veggie fields on Saturday August 15, 2026!

• Come learn all about our farm and vegetable production in Alberta and try your hand at picking super sweet shelling peas, green & yellow beans, broad beans and more (based on availability).

• After the tour pop into our Country Store for some great hand-picked fresh vegetables, handmade take and bake fruit and savoury pies, preserves, Angus beef and so much more!

• Please note we are not open on Sunday. 

Our Country Store is all about home grown goodness! We offer farm-direct seasonal farm gate sales of our home grown sweet and tender Asparagus Mid May until the end of June, freshly picked garden peas July & August and many other veggies. In the freezer, you can pick up Edgar Farms home raised, hormone- and antibiotic-free, grass fed Angus beef. Also there are naturally fermented veggies, asparagus, green pea and borscht soups and ready-to-bake homemade fruit & savoury pies. The preserves shelves are brimming with a large selection of handmade preserves using traditional recipes and our own home grown ingredients with no artificial colours, flavours or preservatives. Everything is natural as it should be. Don’t forget your cooler!

The Country Store is open 10 AM – 5 PM Monday to Saturday, Closed Sundays, from early May until early September.

*Tours to the vegetable fields are offered on a first come first served basis and are weather dependent.

Healing Homestead is a second generation family owned and operated mixed livestock farm located in Parkland County, AB.

We specialize in breeding, raising and conserving Heritage Breed poultry (Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks and a Peacock or two!)  and our small herd of Alpacas. Our farm runs with the well-being in mind for the land and the animals we steward. The nutrient-density of our food is a direct reflection of the health of the ecosystem that produced it. Our thriving farm ecosystem produces nourishing pasture raised chicken, turkey, eggs, and produce. Zero chemicals, pesticides & hormones. All animals are fed a Corn & Soy Free diet.

Healing our bodies with nutrient dense food inspired our on farm Exclusive Gluten Free Bakeshop. Using high protein & fiber rich Alberta produced flours to make delicious GF Baked Goods. We also offer other local farm products like Honey, Goat Milk Soaps, Candles, Plants, Holistic livestock feed (Chicken, Rabbit etc.) and more in our farm store. Check out our website for all the details.

We invite our customers to connect with the land and where there food comes from, and find empowerment in our community while engaging with our products.

Mission
Using Permaculture practices to heal and rebuild the land we gratefully get to steward is the first step in our holistic approach to biodynamic farming.
Food security, control over where our food comes from, water conservation management and being able to include our children in this process.

Vision
Food Sovereignty, Community & Empowerment

Open Farm Day Schedule of Events

• Meet at the Tent every hour for a tour and Q & A session.
• Enjoy the sights and sounds of the open fresh country air, listen to the roosters crow, pet our friendly goats and Alpacas while sampling some delicious baked goods. 
• Our year around Farm Store is stocked with Fresh Farm Preserves, Artisanal Gluten Free Pies, Cookies, Cinnamon Rolls & Sourdough, Spices & Seasonings, Good Morning Honey Products, Rooster Roaster Coffee, Farm Swag and more!
• Vendor  Market with Quilting, Weaving and Alberta Wildcraft products. 
• Take a stroll through our Forest where you can see Chickens, Ducks, Turkeys, Peacocks and even a Dinosaur too!
• Mini Golf  & try your luck fishing for Rubber Duckies and win a prize. These activities are extra cost.
• Ducky Delights Treat Stand- Cold Drinks, Ice Cream Treats, Chips  available for purchase (prefer cash)

Farm Store will be open to purchase GF & DF Baked Goods, Rooster Roast Coffee, Local Honey, Farm Fresh Eggs,  Farm raised meats, Jams & Jellies, Canning, Beeswax Candles, Eco friendly Kitchenware, etc.   

Pre Order Baked Goods on our website for pickup during  the Event. Shop Online

*Farm Store Prefer Cash but can accept Credit or Debit

Free brewery tours are available!

Tours will be on Saturday at 1:00 pm, 3:00 pm, and 5:00 pm. Find out where our ingredients come from and how we make our award-winning brews, led by our incredible brewer, Shawna!

Additionally, you will be able to try free samples of our products!

We also have a special Alberta brew, especially for Open Farm Tour Days, called "Crop Duster"! 

Anyone who joined in will also receive 10% off of any purchase following the tour.

For families, we have fresh handmade fire-roasted pizza by La Pizza Napolenta and lots of games such as Giant Connect4, foosball, cornhole, and tons of board games, with live music by Mad Chad & Claude starting around 7:30 pm if you want to end your tour with us!

Welcome to the Lone Pine Ranch!

Looking for a relaxing place in the countryside? Come and visit us and our animals.

Hi my name is Sylvia. I am the owner of the Lone Pine Ranch Bed and Breakfast. With the support of volunteers from all over the world I run a herd of cattle and the B&B.

When you come and visit our place our 3 dogs Jake, Shiloh and Willow will be the first ones to meet you, they love to welcome everyone of our guests personally.
But there are many more animals to see: 
Alpacas, llamas, sheep, chickens, ducks, pigs, cats, guinea fowl, donkeys, a horse and a pony call the Lone Pine Ranch home. We are an active cattle ranch, cows, calves and bulls are here, but not necessarily in sight.

Besides all the animals, we also run a Bed & Breakfast. Visitors can explore our cozy cabins and check out our dining room treats.

There will also be a Country Market and Garage Sale at the ranch on Sunday the 16th of August with a variety of vendors from the region and Edmonton. Outdoor activities will include a roping station, horseshoe pitching, glitter tattoos and other games.

Everyone is welcome to check out and observe the animals. There are eggs to collect in the chicken coop and we provide snacks so you can feed to the donkeys. For the Country market we will have a petting area for our sheep set up and you can watch our potbelly pigs relax in the sun.

We are looking forward to welcoming you here at the ranch!

On August 15, come out to Parkland Nurseries & Garden Centre we will have something for everyone:

All Activities will be posted soon! 

We are the Thiessen Family and have been growing cut flowers since 2019.

We sell our flowers through a bouquet subscription program, markets and u-picks. We mostly grow all our flowers in fields and have one high-tunnel in production.

FREE FARM TOURS:

• 10:30 am Farm Tour
• 12:30 pm Farm Tour
• 2:30 pm Farm Tour

U-picks (Bring your own vase 4" diameter max, or purchase one for $5 on farm)  $40/ person

Free cinnamon buns and coffee.

Learn about soil-blocking and try your hand!  

Goodies to purchase on farm.

Welcome to our frontier!

Providence Lane Homestead is a small-scale regenerative farm located just 45 minutes northwest of downtown Calgary.

Since 2019, we have been Canada's only dedicated fibre farm to be certified Animal Welfare Approved by A Greener World. With our flock of endangered heritage breed Border Leicesters - the breed was featured in the movie "Babe" - and a small troop of alpacas, we use our flerd to carefully manage the land we steward, including eight hectares of native prairie, a small outpost in a critically-endangered prairie ecosystem.

We believe in building community and have worked extensively with many partners, including the University of Calgary, the Alberta University of the Arts, Emily Carr University of Art + Design as well as our amazing conservation partners like MultiSAR and Cows and Fish as well as other community members (we call them our fibre friends) like our amazingly supportive handspinners and weavers, artists, makers and more. We prioritize climate resilience and rare breed conservation as we work hard to raise our heritage breed sheep in an environment where they will not only thrive, but they'll also become a critical part of building healthy soil, water and carbon cycles.

As much as we can be, we are an inclusive environment and welcome guests from every walk of life. For those of our guests who may require a quiet Sensory Space, we are pleased to provide an opportunity to ground yourself, catch your breath and re-establish your equilibrium. Please ask us and we will be happy to point you in the right direction!

PARKING NOTE: We have plenty of parking across the road from the farm gate. Look for the sign and we will be ready to welcome you on foot at the homestead!

Although we welcome all kinds of people to the homestead, we are unable to accommodate dogs. For everyone's safety and comfort, please leave your fabulous pooch at home. Clio, Brian and Mabel thank you!

During Open Farm Days, join us at Providence Lane Homestead on Saturday,

• Are you homestead-curious? Take a tour of our small-scale regenerative farm as Tara walks you through a "day in the life" for our resident pastoralists!
• Join shepherd and Livestock Guardian Dog breeder Jacquie Turuk from Shars and Sheep and Honeybees as she answers questions and teaches our guests about our incredible dogs, Brian and Clio, and others like them. Some of the things you may discover - how long have humans been working with dogs on open rangelands? What do these dogs do? How are guardian dogs different from pet dogs? Should guardian breeds be pets? 
• Go for a walk and get your hands dirty with Dr. Steven Tannas as we explore the ecology of native prairie grasslands and some straight talk about what it takes to actually restore native grasslands once they've been altered.
• Pull up a patch and settle in for some yarnin' about life on the prairie from some local (and colourful) storytellers. If you jog her memory, Tara might even tell the story about would-be ostrich wrangler, Chicken Fred. You don't want to miss it!
• Our "Down the Lane" marketplace will be humming with offerings including - a selection of our own blend of native wildflower seeds, sheeps' milk soap, Jacquie's own honey and once again we're thrilled to welcome Jill back from Marty Lynn with a curated, made-to-order collection of knitwear!

With more activities and market vendors0 lining up, be sure to subscribe to our newsletter and check back to catch the latest updates!

We will be hosting an Open Farms Day end BBQ where visitors and Host are able to attend to end their exciting day. On site we will have many vendors of Local producers (Taste of Barrhead) that will be there to interact with many visitors. Those who have not been able to attend their farm during the day, will have the opportunity to see a few animals and be educated on what farming is all about.
Demonstrations with also be shown throughout the 4 hours they are open.

Spirit Hills crafts one-of-a kind award winning flower wines that share the purity of the foothills of the Canadian Rocky Mountains

Book your tour time here: Tours – Spirit Hills

We give our customers exquisite culinary wine experiences, joy, romance and relaxation befit to a truly extraordinary life.

We know how difficult and random it can be to find a truly memorable and exquisite wine. That is why at Spirit Hills, the Bonjean’s, who hail from generations of French winemakers, layered the flavour elements of traditional grape wine into unforgettable new wines crafted from the wildflowers of their terroir.

The Spirit Hills winery tours and tastings are family friendly, fun and educational. The entire tour is indoors and led by one of our star team members. You will learn about: Rocky Mountain Foothills flowers, bees and wine production.

Throughout the tour you will get to sample a variety of delicious flower wines and have a chance to purchase some. As a team, we personally like to take the time to share with you the story of our flowers, bees and wines so that next time when you have a sip of our flower wines you can taste the love, care and dedication that went into crafting the delicate flavours and aromas.

After the tour you can enjoy a glass of wine or wine cocktail and enjoy our amazing view of the foothills! Fire roasted pizza's will be available for purchase as well.

We look forward to hosting you!

Welcome to the Old School Cheesery’s Open Farm Days!

Join us on a free tour of our production facility with our head cheese maker, Valerie. Followed by a small cheese tasting experience with Patrick, the owner of OSC.

**Tours will run EVERY HOUR starting at 10:00 am until 5:00 pm on Saturday August 15th, 2026.

Local Gem

Tucked away in the heart of this small town, The Old School Cheesery is a haven for cheese lovers and foodies alike. This charming shop is a treasure trove of artisanal cheeses, gourmet goodies, and expert knowledge.

Alberta Made Cheese

Step inside, and you'll be greeted by a stunning array of cheeses carefully crafted right here in Vermilion, Ab. From creamy brie to fresh cheese curds, the selection is vast and tantalizing. The knowledgeable staff is always happy to offer recommendations, pairing suggestions, and tasting notes to help you navigate the vast world of cheese.

Gourmet Delights

But The Old School Cheesery is more than just a cheese shop. Browse the shelves, and you'll discover an impressive assortment of gourmet accompaniments, including:

- Artisanal crackers and breads

- Specialty jams and chutneys

- Cured meats and charcuterie

- Syrups and Seasonings

- Honey

- Pickled goods

Services and Events

The Old School Cheesery offers a range of services to enhance your shopping experience:

- Custom gift baskets and cheese boards

- Cheese and wine pairings

- Regular tastings and workshops

- Catering and event services

Whether you're a cheese aficionado or just looking for a new culinary adventure, The Old School Cheesery is a must-visit destination. Come and explore the world of cheese, and let the friendly staff guide you on a journey of discovery and delight!

There is also an outdoor patio for our guests to relax and enjoy during their visit.

Come, See and Learn where your milk is coming from !

Come and see our wonderful dairy cows ! We are a local family run dairy farm with 140 milking cows. Located 25 Km West of Innisfail on Highway 54. Started the dairy in 2001.  Our cows live in a free stall barn. And we milk our cows in a herringbone milk parlor.

We are raising our baby heifer calves as well.

• To give you an inside look of the dairy operation, we are giving tours of our dairy.

• There will be fun games and activities for kids and you can try to milk Daisy our milk cow too !

And also, have a visit at The Dairy Saloon, Chapman's Ice cream, home made Apple Pie and Sylvan Star cheese will be available.

Our facilities are wheel chair accessible as well.

Hope to see you !

Wild Country Gardens is made up of a fruit and vegetable farm

We are open Saturday and Sunday! Can't wait to see you.

We are nestled in a beautiful forested area near Wildwood, Alberta just off of Yellowhead Highway. Our orchard consists of over 3000 fruit trees and bushes, all planted by us over the last 16 years. The Gardens feature approximately 2500 heads of garlics and a large variety of vegetables and herbs which we use for making our products.

We will be offering guided tours of our farm explaining our farming practices and what is working for us. The tour can take as long as 30 minutes and up to 1 hour depending on the group.

We also offer the opportunity to shop in Wild Country Gardens Farm Store which is filled with Alberta made products all made by us, such as preserves: jams, syrups, pickles, sauerkraut and pepper jellies,

Frozen fruits (Haskap, Saskatoons, Cherries) $6 per lb,

New to our farm is our Freeze Dried Products: Fruit Snacks, Fruit Smoothie Mixes, Fruit, Vegetables and Herbs; Local Made Soaps, Candy, and Ice Cream Treats.

Our Puschens are one of a kind. Made and designed by Paulette, they are crocheted slippers with leather soles lined with sheepskin and accented with deer antler buttons.

Farm to Table Lunch from 11:30 to 2:00 Tickets will be be available. More info to  come