The BC Farm Machinery and Agricultural Museum features British Columbia’s largest collection of pioneer artifacts. The kids will love riding on the Museum’s pedal tractors. While a number of the displays are for eyes-only, ask a volunteer to show your kids the vegetable sorting machine and the egg sorting machine.
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Honeybee Centre is a commercial honey farm and visitor attraction. The main business is renting beehives to pollinate blueberry flowers and ten other fruit crops, including cranberries, raspberries, and pumpkins. Be sure to take part in the fascinating bee tours. You will learn a lot about these essential little critters.
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We went on a driving adventure this weekend and found ourselves in the far reaches of Tsawwassen, just past Boundary Bay.  What a lovely part of the Lower Mainland!  We had gone in search of the Earthwise Society’s Tomato Fest.  I’m so glad we went! Earthwise Society promotes sustainability through education and community
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It can’t possibly be Fall, in our house, without multiple visits to Apple Barn Pumpkin Farm in Abbotsford.  We started this tradition before our eldest was even a year old.  Now with 2 boys in tow, aged nearly 4 & 6, we have an utter blast.  This is the first
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The sun has been generous and that means the strawberries are plentiful.  While today was a drizzly-Vancouver-special we bundled up and headed to the strawberry fields.  The plants are LOADED with perfectly ripe berries.  Very few were over ripe, the majority were perfectly ripe juicy red berries. Krause Berry Farms,
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Don’t miss out on the fun! Get FREE access to news and events in Vancouver! Come and see Ladner’s Halloween Headquarters!  The folks at Westham Island Herb Farm LOVE to celebrate Halloween and provide a wonderful fall display for the occasion. Come see the great display of “scarecrows” incorporating pumpkins,
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We were fortunate to spend our Family Day morning riding horses at A & T Equestrian in Surrey.  What an experience! As you pull into the gravel parking lot, you quickly learn this is a place that LOVES animals.  They are everywhere and every one we met was incredibly friendly.
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Krause Berry Farms offers so much family fun! They have a “Future Farmers at Work Play” playground, a (seasonal) petting farm, a hen house, carriage rides, and birthday parties too! Be sure to have a seat on the Porch, where they serve old fashioned berry milkshakes, smoothies and roasted corn
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Visit Aldor Acres Ltd. for some family fun on the farm. 2018 marks 30 years in business for the Fort Langley based business.  The farm is open daily through October 31, featuring over 20 acres of pumpkins, corn, radiant sunflowers, hayrides, petting zoos, agricultural displays and their very own Farmacy, where
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Raptors Ridge is dedicated to educational programs, insuring that wildlife and their habitat are understood and survive. Raptors Ridge is a unique tourist attraction, that operates a Bird of Prey Centre that is dedicated to the conservation of birds of prey. Their captive birds, including hawks, falcons and owls, provide
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