Most of all the food we eat will have started life on a farm, or came from a garden.  In the Yukon, we have a variety of farms that provide locally grown and harvested foods, for example livestock farms, poultry farms, game farms, fish farms, crop farms, market gardens, apiaries.

Yukon farms and gardens are in relatively close proximity to communities, particularly in the Whitehorse region.  With increasing interest in growing foods, community greenhouses and gardens are taking root in communities outside the Whitehorse region.

Farming and gardening in the Yukon has challenges that require creative and scientific thinking, for yields to extend into the community.  Witnessing the resourcefulness and seeing harvested results is an experience that makes for living science,

…supporting growing in the Yukon, and  
widening the pathway of healthy living.

For a listing and contact information, of Gardens and Farms in your community:
Yukon Farm Products & Services 2008
www.farmproducts.yukonfood.com
And, check in your community for unlisted and enthusiastic practitioners.

Resources:
There are many community gardens sprouting up in Yukon communities; as well there are many community gardens sprouting up in neighbourhoods around Whitehorse.  These great opportunities to bring science alive in your classroom are often just walking distance away.

YUKON FARM VISITS
The following listed farms responded to a survey (Spring 2009).  The survey was an inquiry into school-farm visits that was sent to farms listed on the Yukon Agriculture Association member list.  The intentions of this list are:

• to encourage Yukon students to experience living science,
• to encourage teachers to incorporate farm visits into curriculum theme development,
• to develop a “living” list, that will be re-posted annually.

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