Experience Alberta Open Farm Days
In the hilarious Hollywood movie, City Slickers (you should
toast? Quite possibly the same farm! That beer you had at the
see it), a trio of stressed-out city boys embark on a comical
brewpub yesterday evening? You get the idea.
cattle drive to find themselves. And, you guessed it, in the end, through much adversity - including nasty storms, stampedes,
And, with over 100 farms and various businesses participating,
and trailside calf birthing emergencies – the main characters
the opportunities and the variety of these “connections” are
(Billy Crystal and Daniel Stern steal the show) have an amazing,
substantial. From dude ranches to fruit wineries - and every-
life-changing experience. Everything that is truly important is
thing in between - the experiences are going to be interesting
put into proper perspective. The catalyst? The great outdoors
and eye opening. And they can have a dramatic and positive
and ranching ways, of course!
impact on how you live. What do you choose to buy.
In many ways, Alberta Open Farm Days - a late-summer,
Sadly, many people – especially city slickers, will never pull a
weekend-long opportunity for city slickers to visit farms and
carrot out of the dirt, wipe it clean, and crunch the goodness of
connect with various agricultural enterprises - strives for some-
the ground from where it came. It puts a different spin on food;
thing similar. True, you may not have an opportunity to help
to see it, taste it, pure and completely unprocessed. And it’s the
a calf enter the world during your experience (although, you
simple experiences like this that make the Alberta Open Farm
never know!), you are guaranteed to have a ton of fun and
Days an event you want to mark on your calendar.
learn plenty of things about stuff you really should know. Stuff that, whether you realize it or not, you are deeply connected
Since its inception in 2009, the Alberta Open Farm Days has
to. These farms, ranches, and ag-tourism operators are the
grown substantially. In the first year only a few participated.
places, and the people that truly sustain our society.
Province-wide, over 100 farms and ag-tourism operators will open their doors to the public. And it’s grown to include not
The milk you dumped on your cereal this morning...Yes,
just farms and ranches, but restaurants, craft breweries, winer-
indeed that came from a dairy cow. The butter you put on your
ies, distilleries, tour operators, and culinary events.
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