10th edition of Alberta Open Farm Days starts today
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This weekend more than 115 farms across the province will open their gates and welcome visitors as part of the 10th instalment of Alberta Open Farm Days.
One of those farms taking part in the two-day agri-tourism event is run by the Trigg family.
Laurie and husband Chad started Backwoods Buffalo Ranch near Mayerthorpe, located about 150 kilometres northwest of Edmonton, about a decade ago when they were in their early 20s.
"We worked super hard to have this as our own," Laurie says.
The Métis family are first generation bison and pork producers and the name of the ranch ties back to their family's heritage.
You can see more on Alberta Open Farm Days this week on Our Edmonton Saturday at 10 a.m., Sunday and Monday at 11 a.m. on CBC TV and CBC Gem.
"Because we're an Indigenous family that's the term [buffalo] we prefer," Laurie says.
"It goes with our heritage and who we are as people."
Laurie says the best part of the event is visitor reactions to the bison on the behind-the-scenes wagon rides.
"You get up beside them and their heads are like this big, they're massive right, it's pretty incredible."
The family also raises goats, chickens, ducks and have an onsite farm store. This weekend they're giving farm tours, offering demonstrations and hosting a charity pig roast with proceeds going to the Stollery Children's Hospital.
Elk, wild boar and longhorn beef are also a huge draw to the Wild Ventures Game Farm, located about 130 kilometres north of Edmonton near Wildwood, Alta.
Jackie Veldhouse says this is the first time they will take part in the event.
"The world has changed so much and we have to change with it, and this is an opportunity to help our farm," says Veldhouse who's kids are now the fourth generation on the land.
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