Get Back to Basics

Heritage Farm is here to help you enjoy rural life. Join us as we explore nature and country living here in Western Canada.  In an age of hectic schedules, overtime, fast food and debt ratio, it's time to get back to basics. We hope you can connect with some of the stories

in our Rural Roots Magazine and we encourage you to share some of your own with us. Thanks for visiting.

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Subscribe today for only $21 per year and get a free Spring 2012 issue

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Fall 2010

~ Peace Country Pioneer Camp - Travel on horseback into the Kakwa region

~ Zone 2 Gardening

Fall chore list to help your perennials survive the winter as well as a list of hardy trees & shrubs

~ Heating With Wood

Things you should know before buying that old wood stove at the auction

~ The 100 Mile Diet

Supporting local producers while learning how to make Hot & Spicy Salsa

 

Summer 2010 Issue

~ Heirloom Tomatoes zone 2

Learn how to start your own plants from seed with step by step instructions

~ Antique Restorations

From heritage farm houses to 100 year old steam engines

~ 4H Families

Learn to do by doing

~ Deja~Vu Century Farm

Organic living and rare breeds

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Winter 2010 / 2011

~ Birds of your Winter Garden

Useful pictures to help you identify visiting birds and tips on different foods to attract different birds

~ History of the North West Mounted Police on the Prairies

~ Northern Lights

AuroraMAX goes onine bringing you the Aurora Borealis live to your home

~ STARS celebrates 25 years serving rural communities

~ Nature Photography with Canadian Photographic Artist of the Year

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Spring 2011

~ Amend your Garden Soil

~ Grow Your Own Food

~ Teepee Creek Stampede 95 Years of Western Tradition

~ Wanham Plowing Match

~ Artistry of a Western Silversmith

~ Companion Planting

~ Ecosystem Conservation

~ Farm Gate - Raising Alpacas

~  Heirloom Tomatoes

 

Fall 2011

~ The Urban Grdener

~ Organic Square Foot Gardens

~ Wagons West - The culture and history of rural living on the prairies over 94 years

~ Native American History

Hides for Art and Survival

~ Early Canadian Explorers

~ Locally Produced Food

~ Country Kitchen - Old Fashion Pumpkin Pie

~ Demmitt Timberframe Hall Innovative Sustainable Technology

 ~ Medicinal Herbs - How To Make Your Own Blends

 

Summer 2011

~ Touch the Earth Nature Camp

~ Organic Gardening with Ladybugs

~ Building A Raised Bed

~ Edson Trail 100 Year Celebration & Trail Ride

~ Wheat Belt Baseball League

~ Bison on the Prairies

~ Country Kitchen, making Old Fashion Strawberry Jam

~ Recycled Garden Art

~ York Boat Journey on the Mackenzie River

~ Maintaining Your Summer Garden Space


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Winter 2011

~ Heirloom Tomatoes and Herbs for zone 2 gardens

~ Local Food ~ learn about the agriculture programs and the producers

~ Moving and Saving a Hip Roof Barn

~ Peace Country dinosaur fossil collection

~ Artist Euphemia McNaught Homestead

~ Horses for Orphans in Brazil - horsemanship

~ Country Kitchen

Recipes for local bison

~ Genetic Diversity and why it's important

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Spring 2012

~ Greenhouse Planning & Design

~ Farm Gate, Get to Know Your Local Farmer

~ Blacksmithing on the Farm

~ Raising Heritage Breed Chickens

~ Hardy Zone 2 Heritage Seeds - Over 100 varieties available by mail order

~ Country Kitchen - Cooking with Lamb

~ Youth Environmental Expedition - the Pangaea Young Explorers Program

~ Cleardale Riders host the Gymkhana, Heavy Horse & Mule Fun Days

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Summer 2010

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Fall 2010

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Winter 2010

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Spring 2011

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Summer 2011

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Fall 2011

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Winter 2011

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The farm field trials were a huge success here in our northern zone 2b. We are excited to offer 100 of the best varieties of heritage seed for you to try in your garden. Email us with your address for a seed catalogue.


2012 Seed Catalogue




Tips and information from our north western Canada gardening

classes and resources for small farming or urban agriculture

can be found in our locally published Rural Roots magazine.




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Heirloom Tomatoes

Transplants Now Available


14 Hardy Varieties

Grown Locally From Seed

Non GMO ~ Save your seeds

from these varieties to start

your own seed collection


Now On Sale at the

Beaverlodge Farmers' Market

Tuesdays  5 pm - 8 pm

Wednesdays  noon - 3 pm


100 varieties of zone 2 hardy

heirloom seeds at the market


Farm visits by appointment

call 780-228-3748



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