2024: Solstice Berry Farm is now permanently closed. Saskatoon berries, representative of the prairie provinces, are delicious in baking or as a snack. Pack up the family and make the short drive to Solstice Berry Farm, and pick your own this year! Usually, berries are ready between the third week
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Sponsored by Wilder Institute/Calgary Zoo Conservation Champions Club Oh, sweet summer, how I love thee. The warmth of the sun, a good thunderstorm, the long, light evenings, and playing outside. Of course, there’s also the non-stop chaos in my house. “Can we have . . . friends over, another snack,
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The Saskatoon Farm, just outside of Okotoks, is a farm fun destination. Depending on the time of summer, you can come to pick your own saskatoons, sour cherries, and currants. But you’ll also find greenhouses, a gift shop and restaurant, and a seasonal farmers market! U-Pick Saskatoon berry picking starts
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Spend time with friends, enjoy good food, and watch your kids laughing and playing … the best things in life are at Granary Road this summer! Granary Road is your destination for weekend market shopping, racing your kids up a spider web, and connecting with your teens on the Yesteryear
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Families are invited to check out Stretch Fest, a family-friendly fundraising festival that will take place from May 20 – 21, 2023,  at the Crossroads Market and June 3 – 4, 2023, at the Calgary Farmers’ Market South. Calgary’s community of entertainers will be donating their time and services to
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On September 9, 2023, head out to Chestermere for a classic Country Fair! You can check out all the best produce, baking, and crafts, plus enjoy a parade, pancake breakfast, and farmers market. Enjoy the mutton busting, an indoor marketplace, a kids’ zone, and more! Parade: The parade begins at
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There’s something iconic about a candy store. It’s a child’s wonderland, with sugary sweet delights that are often colourful and always delicious. Even adults can’t always resist the lure of the candy store, especially when they find nostalgic sweets that bring back those happy, carefree days of childhood. Sure, you
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Life in Calgary is starting to open up. As our family activities have revolved around parks, backyard fires, biking, and other outdoor fun for so long, it’s almost disconcerting remembering what the “old” normal looks like! That brings up the question everyone is asking: what will this summer hold? One
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Oh, winter, with your long nights and cold days. Dripping boots line my entryway, my budget is squeezed by Christmas, and the days where we could run out and play are a distant memory. But we can defeat the winter blues. It’s possible to take the family out for some
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The COVID-19 crisis has turned our world upside-down in historical ways, bringing a storm of adversity to small businesses in Calgary. Many of these businesses are now in a critical fight for survival and the future is uncertain. Although tentative “re-entry” measures have been announced by the Alberta government, Family
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