Open Farm Days celebrates Alberta agriculture

They have a lot planned for participants this year.

“We take them on a guided tour of the area where there is teepee rings, you see quite a few teepee rings and artifacts there, a grinding stone that was there, there’s a jump area and there’s a spot where there’s a lot of crushed bone where they broke up bone for the bone marrow for food in the old days,” says Lethbridge, a member of the Wood Mountain Lakota First Nation in southern Saskatchewan, of the Indigenous part of the tour.

He says participants will also see farm’s Timothy hay field, can learn about the irrigation system they use and there will be a cattle feeding experience in the pasture.

Victor says he and his wife both feel it’s important to give people a hands-on experience and first-hand perspective of farming when possible.

“We can answer questions. People sometimes you know – what is a pivot? how does that work? what about cattle? what about growing crops?” he says. “There may not be the realization of the thin margins that farmers and ranchers operate on and how we are held to conditions of the environment and how we strive to be caretakers of the land.”

Visit openfarmdays.ca for more on the D Bar V Farms event and other participating locations.

by Chris Brown

Open Farm Days celebrates Alberta agriculture

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