More than 100 farms preparing for kickoff of Alberta Open Farm Days

Alberta Open Farm Days takes place over the weekend, Aug. 13-14, with more than 100 farms across Alberta participating.

Alberta Open Farm Days takes place this weekend, Aug. 13-14, and more than 100 farms across Alberta are participating.

Chatsworth Farm, located east of Edmonton near Vermilion, is one the properties opening its doors to visitors.

Started in 1994, the farm is run by seven family members who are dedicated to making sure Albertans have farm-to-table quality food with every purchase.

Driving into the farm yard, people are greeted by a massive garden growing almost every vegetable imaginable in Alberta.

Chatsworth Farm is a mixed farm growing crops and raising livestock, including cattle, sheep, ducks, chickens, geese and two horses. And no farm is complete without some barn cats!

Charlotte Wasylik, the family’s only daughter, helps out as much as she can on the farm, including running their social and media handlings.

“We have beef, we have lamb, and we have poultry and eggs — those are some of the things that we sell farm-to-table, so directly from our farm to customers,” said Wasylik.

All the animals, from the cattle to lambs — even their turkeys — are born or hatched on the farm. Once they hit their desired size they head to the butcher, she said.