FARMED Membership

Benefits include:

• Networking
• Monthly Meetings
• Cooperative Marketing Website links
• Event posting
• Tour listings
• Product listings
• Agri-webinars

The Australian Ranch has many fun activities for friends and family to enjoy this summer.

• Vicky's Perrenials Plus sells hardy Cariboo perennial plants
• A-maze-ing Yorston Beef for all your beef needs, pure beef, no hormones, no animal by-products, non-grain fed beef. A whole beef, government inspected half a beef available by order or packaged individual government inspected beef available at the farm. Order 50 pounds or more and we will deliver to Quesnel
• A-Maze-ing Yorston Dog Food - pure dried beef, frozen bones with beef, and beef bones
• Maze n' Meal - by appointment only, with a minimum of two days notice, for groups of less than 50. Perfect for treating your employees, birthdays, anniversaries, out of town entertainment etc - mid July to October
• Farm educational tours by appointment only please, mid July to October
• Cariboo's Corn Maze open from dawn to dusk from mid July to October Special events - Thanksgiving weekend, Friday, Saturday, Sunday visit our Haunted House and Haunted Maze - 7-10pm

Bone Meadow Ranch & Gardens operates a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) Program and produces farm fresh vegetables and herbs. Although we are not certified organic growers, we adhere to organic farming methods using no chemicals or pesticides. Weekly vegetable boxes ("Bounty Boxes") are available by subscription from July thru October each year. Please call for pricing or visit the farm's website for details.

In addition to fresh produce, The Rusty Horseshow Gift Shoppe - an eclectic mix of antiques, collectibles, gift items, jams, jellies, syrups, salsas, etc. - will be open by appointment beginning in the summer of 2010. The farm also raises Cashmere and Boer-X meat goats available for purchase. Please call the farm for details.

Ken and Judith invite you to visit their website frequently to discover what's new at the farm, and to learn about the enhancements that are planned for the future.

The farm is open by appointment only.

Community Futures Development Corporation North Cariboo
679 Highway 97 S, Quesnel BC
Tel: 250.747.1212
Web: www.cfquesnel.com
Email: Community Futures

Community Futures offers support for business development, business loans, workshops, seminars and has a resource and information library

Visit this 26-acre Provincial Historic Site and let our heritage interpreters tell the story of life in the Gold Rush era and the Boyd family, caretakers of Cottonwood House for over 75 years.Your visit will include a guided tour inside Cottonwood House, tours of the barns, garden, root celler, interpretive centre and antique machinery display as well as a visit with the many animals on the site. Enjoy a meal or snack in the restaurant and a visit to the gift and candy store.

Field of Dreams Alpacas offers alpaca rovings, yarn clothing, alpaca sales and breeding. We also offer scarves, duvets and blankets.

Kersly Christmas Trees

Kirby Hill Farm
5266 Clouston Rd (10 Mile Lake)
Quesnel BC V2J 6X9
Tel: 250.992.5205

Kirby Hill Farm offers slow-grow Angus/Angus X beef; finished on pasture with minimal grain (oats barley), pasture raised poultry - chicken & turkey, free run and ranged (in summer) brown eggs. Please call ahead for product orders and availability.

Visit Knauf Farm for a wagon or sleigh ride, and outdoor museum. Knauf Farm also offers wool and fibre arts demonstrations, blacksmithing and restored farm equipment.

M/M Ranch

Moose Meadows Farm
2861 Nazko Rd, Quesnel BC
Tel: 249 5329
Web: www.moosemeadowsfarm.ca
Products: Wreaths, eggs, birch syrup, tours, special events

Mufford Valley Ranch

The Quesnel Agriculture Fair and Exhibition hosts a community agriculture fair in Quesnel every labour Day Weekend.

In 2008 Quesnel Exhibition and Fair saw many changes, and is well on the way to being the best in Northern BC. They have something to appeal to all ages. A special children’s activity center, as well as the traditional livestock, horticultural, arts and crafts exhibits will be there. Our Entertainment Tent will once more feature Quesnel’s own Homegrown Entertainment Talent.

Logger Sports will provide exciting entertainment for all ages. Precision horse riders and The Draft Horse preform in the outdoor arena for spectators. Our pet parade and the animals displays in the Agriplex have always been a hit with the young and old. The Old Iron display with the tractors and equipment add a presence of the past and our history. Beekeeper, FARSHA and the Ministry of Agriculture displays are set up around the grounds.

We strive to be a family event, and try to improve upon that with each succeeding year. This has many challenges, and we need volunteers from the community to help to work towards this goal. Volunteers can be as active as they desire from a couple of hours to an unlimited commitment. If you have a few minutes to organize a pet parade, talent show, childrens activity, etc. or would like to help with getting ready for the fair by painting signs or help put up posters. We welcome your time and effort large or small, the more people who help out the more successful our exhibition and fair will be. Volunteers receive a free pass to the fair and are welcome to attend our Christmas party.

Visit Farmers' Market every Saturday between 8:30 and 1pm at Helen Dixon on the corner of Carson Ave (Hwy 97 N) and Kinchant Ave. Up to 45 different vendors sell their produce, crafts and more.

Quesnel Community and Economic Development Corporation
339A Reid Street, Quesnel BC
Web: www.quesnelinfo.com
Email: QCEDC

Quesnel is a thriving rural city close to a huge land base, international-class wilderness and historica features, and deeply rooted agriculture. Our vision: a model of sustainability and prosperity.

Land and housing are truly affordable, infrastructure is strong, and it's a great place to raise a family. We're wide open for you and your business.

More information to follow...

Sisters Creek Simmentals
3482 Zschiedrich Rd, Quesnel BC
Tel: 250.747.3700
Email: Sisters Creek Simmentals

Sisters Creek Simmentals offers natural beef products.

OPEN BY APPOINTMENT.

Six Mile Ranch is home to Raptor Ridge Campsite, a small unique family campground just twenty minutes from downtown Quesnel and a short distance to our local convenience store and neighbourhood pub. Come and enjoy a relaxing camping experience overlooking beautiful Bouchie Lake. Our campsite features wall tents, camping, RV sites, guided fishing tours, boat rentals, wild berry picking, bird watching (American White Pelican feeding grounds), water plant sales, fly tying and fishing classes.

BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

Jerry and Laura Entzminger, of Sweet Tree Ventures/Diamond E Ranch, believe that diversity, particularly in tough economic times, is the key to success. In addition to producing beef cattle and top quality hay, the couple has expanded their operation to include birch syrup products and rough cut fir lumber. For more information about the products they offer, please give Jerry or Laura a call.

TJ Ranch & TJ Perrenials

Walkabout Homestead
2196 Rawlings Rd, Quesnel BC
Tel: 250.249.0215
Email: Walkabout Homestead

Walkabout Homestead is home to apples, tea, herbs, springtime chicks: breeds include Australorps, Americauras Red Rocks and rabbits: Californians and New Zealands