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Events, Festivals, Workshops & Tours
Check the Events Calendar for potential available dates, upcoming events, unavailable times, and more!

Moose Meadows Farm is an accredited agritourism farm. Each year, the farm hosts a wide variety of on-farm events and festivals. This includes Educational Workshops (e.g. Wreath Decorating, Birch Tapping & Syrup Production), family days, art shows, and concerts. For additional information on events being planned, see below. Annual events include:

Sugaring Off Farm Festival - April
Birch Syrup Production Workshop - March / April
Art on the Farm (2nd Annual) - September 18, 2011, Sunday (INFORMATION BELOW)
Wreath Decorating Workshops - November / December
On Farm Christmas Markets - November / December
Educational Workshops

Other events are scheduled throughout the year. The farm is in the process of developing a series of workshops / seminar on agricultural diversification, value added opportunities, farm land classification, and agritourism. Watch here for additional details!
Laurell
In June, 2010, the farm hosted Laurell (www.laurell.ca) while she was on tour promoting her CD "Can't Stop Falling". The outdoor concert was a huge success. Click here to view a video taken of Laurell performing at Moose Meadows Farm or here for a photo album of the concert venue.

UPCOMING EVENTS & FESTIVALS

2nd Annual ART ON THE FARM - NORTH CARIBOO
September 18, 2011, Sunday;
Participants: 9am - 4pm / Public: 11 am - 4pm

ART ON THE FARM is an opportunity for local artists of all forms and types to participate in a collaborative community based event which highlights the creativity of the region. The event is fun, funky, family oriented & takes place on a bonafide farm in the beautiful Milburn Lake area west of Quesnel, BC.

All artists are invited to participate - spinners, weavers, musicians, singers, photographers, dancers, performers, painters, sculptures, glass blowers, jewellers, carvers, quilters, potters, sewers, pastels, soap makers, papier mache, martial arts, yoga, dancers, etc. Artists are positioned to sell their craft in the field, barnyard and around the farm. Demonstrations and /or hands on activities which engage the public are encouraged. Through Art on the Farm, culture is put back into "agriculture".

Moose Meadows Farm hosted the 1st Annual North Cariboo Art on the Farm on August 8, 2010. The event for 2011 has been scheduled for September 18, 2011 due to popular demand!

For additional information, please contact us at 250.249.5329 or mmfarm@goldcity.net. For additional information, check the ART ON THE FARM - NORTH CARIBOO site on Facebook.

SHOWCASE OF ARTISTS FOR
2011 ART ON THE FARM - NORTH CARIBOO
TRULY HOME GROWN ART!

THE DANDELION BUCKET
One of a kind upcycles crafts and clothing made from recycled clothing. Entirely handcrafted by owner Jodi Ballinger, with love & attention to detail.
Email: thedandelionbucket@shaw.ca

Check out Jodi's facebook site for additional information

www.facebook.com/pages/The-Dandelion-Bucket/109789309114964

 Dandelion Bucket

ON FARM CHRISTMAS MARKETS
November / December

Every year, in November / December, Moose Meadows Farm hosts several On Farm Christmas Markets. On these days, the farm is open for touring and visiting. Activities include:

Tractor Hay Bale Rides through the Christmas Trees (weather & snow conditions permitting)
Choose (& Cut) your Christmas Tree
View first hand fresh, natural Christmas wreaths being made
Place your order for a fresh wreath
Tour the Farm and vist the animals
Book in for a Wreath Decorating Workshop
Enjoy a Hot Cocoa, Coffee and some Homemade Biscuits
Pond Skating for the very small & their parents (bring your skates)
Visit "The Antlershed Giftshop" where local (& mostly Canadian) products are showcased

5th ANNUAL SUGARING OFF FARM FESTIVAL - April, 2012
Experience the Magic of Sugaring Off

Plan to visit the farm in April to experience the magic of Sugaring Off Boreal Forest Style. Activities that can be enjoyed in the following:
Pancake Breakfast, Sugarshack & Sugarbush Tours, Taste Testing, Meet & Greet the Farm Animals (self guided tours), Pony Rides, Hay Bale Tractor Rides, The Antler Shed Giftshop, and On Farm Market. NO ADMITTANCE FEE

EDUCATIONAL FARM TOURS
MARCH 15th - OCTOBER 31st
(Depending upon weather, we may be able to offer tours outside of this period)
ALL TOURS ARE BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

The farm has been offering EDUCATIONAL FARM TOURS since 2006. With less than 3% of Canadians now living on farms, a visit to an operational farm is educational and something which many people love and cherish. Our tours are geared to the participants and can be "guided" or "self guided". Specific groups that may be interested in participating and visiting the Farm are as follows:
  • Elementary School Classes and Groups
  • Secondary Schools
  • Childrens Clubs - Girl Guides, Scouts, Brownies, Cadets, 4-H, etc.
  • Day Cares
Some or all of the following activities will be available dependant upon time of year and season:
  • Visiting the farm residents (animals) and discussing where they are originally from and their uses (e.g. alpaca fibre (clothing), recreational, eggs, etc.). This includes the ever popular "feeding of the chickens"!!
  • Animal husbandry - shelter requirements, nutritional needs, responsibilities, adaptation to climate, etc.
  • Birch Syrup Production - learning how birch sap is collected and syrup made from the paper birch tree. Includes a guided tour of the sugar bush and sugar shack. This tour is best done during the Sugaring Off season (April).
  • Touring the Christmas Trees and a discussion of the practices and activities undertaken to produce an aesthetic tree ready for the market (e.g. tree species, stump culture, pruning, shearing, fertilisation, spacing, brushing, etc.)
  • Touring our wreath making workshop complete with a discussion on the evergreen species used and why;
  • Learn interesting myths pertaining to Christmas traditions (e.g. trees, wreaths, mistletoe, etc.)
  • Agro-Forestry options - animal grazing (forage) and other land uses (e.g. forestry)
  • Agri-Tourism options - options for combining tourism and agriculture
  • General Forestry - wild crafting (wreath production), private forest management, etc.
  • Enjoy the comfortable environment of the "THE BARN" and attached Workshop where you can view photos and aspects of our labour, have a cup of hot cocoa, tea or coffee and enjoy the warmth of a wood stove

(Left to Right) "The Peafowl Palace", "Over Easy Lodge"
and The Barn/Workshop with "Cattail Pond" in the foreground


TOUR FEES
GROUP TOURS
Minimum Price: $50.00 (+ HST)
For Group Tours involving Children, we do not charge a fee for the chaperones (teachers, parental supervision, etc.)

INDIVIDUAL TOURS
Price:

Adults (17 years +) $6.00 (+ HST)
Children (24 mos. to 16 years) $4.50 (+ HST)
24 mos. & under FREE

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Photographs from the 2008 Sugaring Off Farm Festival
Sugaring Off Farm Festival Collage