About Our Farm
Full Circle Farm began in Black Creek, a Mennonite community on Vancouver Island. There, we grew a family garden and raised chickens, cows, Norwegian Fjord horses, and, for several years, a few sheep. In April of 1999, we made the decision to buy 20 acres in Canyon, just east of the small town of Creston, BC. Since then, our farm has evolved into forty acres that includes grain farming and turkey raising, in addition to our garden, fruit trees and bushes, cows, horses, and chickens.
As for pets, we have a growing number of these. Our faithful farm dogs, Prince (German Shepherd), Tasha (Kuvasz) came to Canyon with us. We acquired Carter, an obstinate Lhasa Apso, in a moment of weakness a few years ago. Zoey is our sole surviving feline from 2009, down from a troupe of 3 queenly cats who have presided over the farm.
We are fully Kootenay Mountain Grown certified and are working with Kootenay Local Agricultural Society. Their website is a wealth of information for growing of all kinds!
Our vision is sustainable, organic farming beyond oil. Small is beautiful.
Drew & Joanne
Julie, Leah and Grant
3 Norwegian Fjord horses
5 Cows
60 Chickens (heritage breeds)
2 Dogs
1 Cat
As small independent farmers, we are not interested in waiting for the government, or science, or corporations, to come up with solutions to the array of threats to the human species and to the natural environment. Seeking to act as responsible and “global citizens”, we’ve decided to try to take matters into our own hands, and to see if we might fashion a sustainable culture on the basis of a healthy agriculture. Our basic goal is to promote an agriculture that is both ecologically and socially sustainable.
You can change the world by changing what you eat. For us farmers, farming is not a job per se, it is a direct form of social action, maybe the most important “grass-roots” activism possible. In our current social context, how and where you procure your food is both a political act and a gesture of the spirit. A large measure of our hope for transforming our culture depends on beginning at the base by creating a renewed and truly health agri-culture.
Stephen Leslie and Kerry Gawalt, Cedar Mountain Farm, Vermont
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