Mainland-Southwest Farm Tours
Note to All Farm Tour Participants:
Food borne illness can result from close contact with farm animals.
To reduce the risk of any food borne illness be sure that all farm tour participants wash their hands with soapy, warm, running water and dry their hands with a clean paper towel before either eating at the farm, on the bus or back at the school.
Agriculture in the Classroom does not review or monitor any of the farm tour facilities offered in the list below. It is up to you as the farm visitor to be aware of the risks associated with visiting a farm. (See Tips for Tours)
| Abbotsford | Berrries, Corn and Corn Maze, Pumpkins | Mann Farms 790 McKenzie Rd. 1136 McKenzie Rd. 1508 Townline Rd. Abbotsford, BC V2S 4N2 Phone: 604.852.5722 | Specialty: Berries, Corn + Corn Maze and Pumpkins Operation: May to End of October Cost: Yes Comments: Award winning Maan Farms offers 5 types of seasonal school tours for students. All tours include an interactive lesson, planting or picking, a hay wagon ride, and time to explore the fun farm and animals. Different agri-tours are: Bees and Berries Tour - (May), Hunting the Big Red Strawberry Tour - (June), Corn Here, Corn There, Corn Everywhere! (September), Papa Jo's Corn Maze Fun (September-October), the Pumpking Patch Tour (October). | |
| Abbotsford | Dairy & Processing Plant | Birchwood Dairies 1154 Faddon Road, RR #2, Abbotsford, BC, V3G 1T9 Phone: 604.857.1315 Fax: 604.556.0814 | Specialty: Dairy Farm. process milk, make ice cream, cheese, cheddar curds and yogurt. Operation: Open year round. Cost: Yes Comments: Tour the processing plant and dairy farm. Picnic area. Petting farm during the summer months. Complimentary ice cream cone with admission. Call for further information and to book tour. | |
| Agassiz | Dairy Farm | Cordine Farms 1633 Cameron Road, RR#1, Agassiz, BC, V0M 1A0 Phone: 604.796.9235 | Specialty: Dairy Farm Operation: All year Cost: No charge Comments: Please call to book a tour | |
| Agassiz | Organic Fruit, Vegetable and Hazelnut Farm | Tranmer Road Farm 1611 & 1555 Tranmer Road, Agassiz Phone: 604.796.2550 / 604.796.0727 Email: hazelnuts@shaw.ca
| Specialty: Organically grown fruit, vegetables and hazlenuts Operation: Mid May to mid November. Cost: Please call for details Comments: Tours available mid September to mid November | |
| Agassiz | Cheese | The Farm House Natural Cheeses 5634 McCallum Road, Agassiz, BC, V0M 1A1 Phone/Fax: 604.796.8741 | Specialty: Cheese Operation: All Year Cost: Yes Comments: Tours include a guided walk around the farm, then a cheese tasting and discussion with the cheesemaker. Tours operate May 1 to September 30 and must be pre-booked. Please call to make a booking. | |
| Aldergrove | Certified Organic Market Garden Greenhouse | The Glorious Garnish and Seasonal Salad Co. 1374-256th St. Aldergrove, BC, V4W 2J4 Phone: 604.857.1400 Fax: 604.857.1820 | Specialty: Salads, herbs, vegetables and edible flowers. Restaurant supplier, farmer's markets & CSA Box Program. Operation: May to mid-October. Cost: Yes, please call for details. Comments: 1-hour tour. Max. 40 people/tour. Salad Shack. A walk through the gardens and processing centre. Talk about environmental issues affecting our food supply. Also hens, fruit and nut trees, picnic areas. Call to arrange a customized tour. | |
| Chilliwack | Corn Maze | The Maze 41905 Yale Road, Chilliwack, BC Phone: 604.819.6203 or 604.823.4904 Fax: 604.793.4666 | Specialty: Corn Maze Operation: Mid Aug - late Oct. Cost: Yes
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| Chilliwack | Dairy Farm | Tonesa Holsteins Ltd. 48376 Yale Road, Chilliwack, BC, V2P 6H4 Phone: 604.795.9465 | Specialty: Dairy Farm Operation: All Year Cost: Yes Comments: Tours for all schools. | |
| Langley | Crops (pumpkins) | Aldor Acres 24990 84th Ave. RR#6, Langley, BC, V3A 4P9 Phone: 604.888.0788 Fax: 604.882.0719 | Specialty: Pumpkins and fall harvest/Spring tours. Operation: The month of October. Cost: Yes Comments: Ride the hay wagon to the field to choose own pumpkin. After, see and play with animals in the farm animal display. | |
| Langley | Dairy | Aldor Acres 24990 84th Ave. RR#6, Langley, BC V1M 3P4 Phone: 604.888.2403 Fax: 604.888.2427 | Specialty: Dairy facility Operation: All year Cost: Yes Comments: An educational dairy facility that features hands on activities, and a milking parlour theatre. | |
| Langley | Floriculture | Flowers From a Country Garden 3309 232nd St. RR#12, Langley, BC V3A 7B9 Phone: 604.530.4027 www.upickcountryflowers.blogspot.com
| Specialty: Dried flowers and fresh flowers in season. Operation: Open all year from dawn to dusk. Closed Mondays and Tuesdays. Cost: Yes Comments: Hobby farm "Murray Creek Farm". A country garden with fruit trees, grapes, peach, apricots, kiwi, etc. Bee hives and honey house. Small herd of cattle. Salmon spawning creek with walkways and areas to observe spawning (Nov.). | |
| Langley | Fruit Trees | Dave's Orchard 5910 216th St. RR#7, Langley, BC V3A 4R1 Phone: 604.534.9979 Fax: 604.534.0919 | Specialty: Fruit trees and vegetables. Operation: Early May to late Nov. Early September is best. Cost: Yes Comments: Tours take 1-2 hours and are available by appointment. Each person gets a bag to pick samples. 18 varieties of apples. Supermarket vegetables, pumpkins, strawberries, etc. | |
| Mission | Apple Orchard | Silverhill Apple Orchard 30111 Silverhill Avenue, Mission, BC Phone: 604.820.7957 | Specialty: Apples, free range eggs, apple cider vinegar and specialty produce. Operation: July to Christmas. Tuesday to Saturday. Cost: Please call for details. Comments: Please call ahead to book tours. | |
| Abbotsford | Apples and pumpkins. | The Apple Barn 333 Gladwin Road,
| Specialty: Apples and pumkins Operation: September 1 to October 31 Cost: Yes Comments: An apple size sorting machine demo, a glass bee hive with instruction on how bees work, an orchard tour explaining how apples grow, a pumpkin patch for u-pick. Providing educational farm tours since 1994. | |
| North Vancouver | Livestock | Maplewood Farm 405 Seymour River Place Phone: 604.929.5610 Fax: 604.929.9341 | Specialty: Officially opened to the public in 1975, and now home to over 200 domestic birds and animals. Maplewood Farm strives to provide a unique experience, incorporating enjoyment, education and a recollection of the rural heritage of this pastoral 5 acre setting. Operation: All year Cost: Yes Comments: Pony barn, pig pen, aviary, greenhouse, poultry barn, livestock barn are among the several different things to see at this farm. | |
| Pemberton | Mixed Farm | North Arm Farm 1888 Sea to Sky Highway 99, Pemberton, BC V0N 2L0 Phone: 604.894.5379 Fax: 604.894.6650 | Specialty: Mixed vegetables and berry farm Operation: May-June for early growing season and Sept - Oct for late growing season Cost: Yes Comments: Mixed Vegetables and berries, farm animals, pumpkin tours, and special events including The Giant Pumpkin Weigh-Off. School tours and tour groups from Whistler. | |
| Pitt Meadows | Corn Maze | Meadows Maze / Cranberry Meadows Country Market 13672 Reichenbach Road, Pitt Meadows, BC Phone: 604.460.0603 Fax: 604.465.5275 | Specialty: Corn Maze Operation: August 1 -mid October. Dusk to closing time. Cost: Yes Comments: 15 acres of corn challenging all ages in a safe, fun and supervised environment. In addition to the mazes there is the country market crammed full of all kinds of antiques and crafts. Children can pet, feed and comb the farm animals. | |
| Pitt Meadows | Honeybees Honey Processing Organic Blueberries | Honeyland Canada 17617 Ford Road Phone: 604.460.8889 Fax: 604.460.8887 | Specialty: Honeybees Operation: Open all year 7 days a week. Store and self guided tours available. Guided tours by appointment. Rain or Shine. Cost: Yes - Guided Tours. Group discounts available. Comments: Honeyland offers interactive and educational, private and public bee tours where kids and grown-ups will discover the exciting and marvelous world of honeybees and modern bee-keeping. End the tour by sampling various delicious varieties of raw honey in the on-site store. | |
| Richmond | Vegetables, pumpkins, beef cattle | W&A Farm 17771 Westminster Highway, Richmond, BC, V6V 1A9 Phone: 604.278.5667 | Specialty: Mixed Farm Operation: All year round Cost: Yes Comments: 1 hr tour offers a close look at how fresh vegetables are grown and harvested. Friendly cows to feed. Climb the haystacks and enjoy your snack in the straw. See a mountain of potatoes and marvel at the 100 carved pumpkins. | |
| Rosedale | Honeybees | Honeyview Farm Ltd. 10609 McGrath Road, Rosedale, BC, V0X 1X0 Phone: 604.794.3315 Fax: 604.794.3085 | Specialty: Honeybees Operation: April - October, open every day. November and December, closed Sundays and Mondays. January - March, variable hours. Please call first. Cost: There is a cost with guided tours. Self guided tours are free. Comments: Large modern beekeeping operation. Beehives and equipment on display and in-season you can see the honey being extracted. | |
| Surrey | Corn Field Maze | The Bose Family Corn Maze 64th Ave. & 156th St. Surrey, BC, V3S 8E7 Phone: 778-578-5450 | Specialty: Corn field maze Operation: August 3, 2009 - October 12, 2009 Cost: Yes Comments: Farm animals, campfires, mini mazes, hay jump, pumpkin patch and tubes slide. | |
| Surrey | Pumpkin patch | Hazelmere Pumpkin Patch at Gabriel Farms Ltd. 18507 - 20th Avenue, Surrey, BC Phone: 604.992.7748 Fax: 604.542.1205 | Specialty: Pumpkins Operation: Month of October Cost: Yes Comments: U-pick pumpkins and gourds, hayrides, petting zoo, face painting and concession. | |
| Vancouver | Botanical Garden | UBC Botanical Garden and Centre for Plant Research 6804 SW Marine Drive, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z4 Phone: 604.822.4208 (Main gatehouse to book class visits) | Specialty: Botanical Garden Operation: All year. Cost: Elementary school goups free with advanced booking. Comments: Working compost pile, how foods are grown and plant diversity. | |
| Vancouver | Educational Garden | UBC Farm 6182 South Campus Road, Vancouver, BC , V6T 1Z4 Phone: 604.822.5092 Fax: 604.822.6839 | Specialty: Educational garden Operation: All Year. Please call to book a tour. Cost: Yes Comments: Field trips focus on where food comes from and how we grow food. | |
| Vancouver | Botanical Garden | Van Dusen Botanical Garden 5251 Oak Street, Vancouver, BC, V6M 4H1 Phone: 604.257.8669 (School Programs) | Specialty: Botanical Garden Operation: Self-guided tours all year. Guided tours: April - October. Cost: Yes Comments: Please check website for program details. | |
| Yarrow | Orchard (Apples) | The Apple Farm 4490 Boundary Road, Yarrow, BC, V0X 2A0 Phone: 604.823.4311 Fax: 604.823.4669 | Specialty: 8,000 tree, 22 variety, high density apple orchard. Operation: End of September to beginning of November Cost: Yes Comments: 1-hour tour. Walk or train ride through orchard. View processing and storage facilities. Sample apple products. Animal demonstration area, park, playground, picnic area. Child receives reusable container filled with apple cider. Slide show & videos for inclement weather. | |
| Aldergrove | Mushrooms | Marvellous Mushrooms PO Box 283 Phone: 604.856.3339 | Specialty: Mushrooms, mushroom spawn and mushroom growing kits, medicinal herbs, Asian pears Operation: All year Cost: No charge Comments: Tours by arrangement. Offering mushroom cultivation and plant tissue culture workshops. | |
| Delta | Dairy Farm | Martiann Holsteins 6356 -68 Street, Delta, BC, V4K 4E2 Phone: 604.946.5921 | Specialty: Dairy Farm. Operation: Spring is best. Tours cancelled until Spring 2011. Cost: Yes. Comments: Please call to book a tour. | |
| Maple Ridge | Pumpkin Patch | Laity Pumpkin Patch 21145 - 128th Avenue, Maple Ridge, BC Phone: 604.467.4302 | Specialty: Pumpkin patch Operation: Month of October Cost: Yes Comments: Reservations required for school tours. October 1 - October 31. | |
| Surrey | Honey Bees | Honeybee Centre 7480 176 St. Surrey, BC, V3S 8E7 Phone: 604.575.2337 Fax: 604.575.2338 | Specialty: You will learn: how not to be stung by a bee, how bees are connected to our food supply, why bees make honey, wax and royal jelly, the life cycle of a honeybee, what are drones, workers and queens and much more. Operation: Year Round Cost: Yes Comments: Highly experiential and fun. Our teachers are knowledgeable and experienced and can design a workshop for your specific interests. Hands-on materials and a big glass hive to watch bees with no sting risk. | |
