All posts by Kolby Peterson

YA Apprenticeship 2025: Carseland, AB – Carrots by Cam

Posted by Kolby Peterson on November 19, 2024 2 Comments

Are you an aspiring farmer looking to gain experience on an organic vegetable farm known for the unmatched flavour of its veggies? Are you wanting to learn about growing a variety of root veggies using organic soil stewardship? Cam has been on the land for over 50 years, and is looking forward to working with someone who wants to learn how to feed others and preserve healthy farmland. About the Farm Carrots by Cam grows a diversity of root vegetables (though the main focus is on carrots) for retail, delivery services, and restaurants in partnership with Poplar Bluff Organics. Cam … Continue reading YA Apprenticeship 2025: Carseland, AB – Carrots by Cam →

YA APPRENTICESHIP 2025: Westlock, AB – Triple Lyoness Farm

Posted by Kolby Peterson on November 19, 2024

Are you an aspiring regenerative farmer looking for an adventure on a family farm, raising cattle and other mixed livestock? Join Triple Lyoness Farm for a farm apprenticeship! About the Farm Triple Lyoness Farm is a family run and operated by the three Carlyon daughters: Andria, Jessica, Briana, and their parents: Rod and Janet Carlyon. Together they maintain a small rural farming business that chooses to be diverse, having many different means of production. Being a mixed operation, Triple Lyoness raises beef cattle (cow-calf and backgrounding steers), broiler chickens and turkeys on pasture in the summer, along with outdoor pigs … Continue reading YA APPRENTICESHIP 2025: Westlock, AB – Triple Lyoness Farm →

YA Apprenticeship 2025: Red Deer, AB – Steel Pony Farm

Posted by Kolby Peterson on December 07, 2023 2 Comments

Are you an aspiring farmer wanting to learn about market gardening, feeding hundreds of people, lean farm management, all while being a part of a tight-knit farm team? Steel Pony Farm is offering a unique apprenticeship rooted in the growth of top-notch veggies but also in the human spirit. Join their team! About the Farm Steel Pony Farm is an 8 acre market garden which grows a diversity of vegetables for a CSA program and for wholesale. Mike Kozlowski grows his veggies with an emphasis on soil health and high nutrient density. Production models include full-till, minimal-till, and no-till where … Continue reading YA Apprenticeship 2025: Red Deer, AB – Steel Pony Farm →

YA Apprenticeship 2025: Lady’s Hat Farm – Castor, AB

Posted by Kolby Peterson on December 07, 2023 1 Comment

Spend your summer helping out under the endless skies of Central Alberta in fields of flowers! Lady’s Hat Farm, a cut flower farm near Castor, Alberta, is looking for an enthusiastic apprentice to work and care for their the 1-acre flower farm and farm animals. About the Farm & Apprenticeship Lady’s Hat Farm produces seasonal and ecological cut flowers and is also home to a floral studio where Nikki designs arrangements for weddings, weekly bouquet subscriptions, packs wholesale orders for florist customers, and dries thousands of stems for wreaths in the fall and winter. Fresh flowers are sold for bouquet … Continue reading YA Apprenticeship 2025: Lady’s Hat Farm – Castor, AB →

YA APPRENTICESHIP 2025: Camrose, AB – Grey Arrow Farm

Posted by Kolby Peterson on November 14, 2023 2 Comments

Are you an aspiring farmer looking to gain experience on a certified organic market garden farm? Are you wanting to learn about growing over 50 varieties of veggies?! Grey Arrow Farm is offering an apprenticeship at their slice of farming paradise; join their team! About the Farm Grey Arrow Farm is a young family farm. Andrea and Denis, along with their five children, are growing clean, healthy produce for their CSA, restaurants, and community in Camrose, Alberta. They grow approximately 55 types of vegetables and herbs over 2.5 acres of cultivated land on their beautiful 35 acre oasis in the … Continue reading YA APPRENTICESHIP 2025: Camrose, AB – Grey Arrow Farm →

YA Apprenticeship 2024: Red Deer, AB – Common Ground Garden Project

Posted by Kolby Peterson on November 10, 2023 2 Comments

About the Farm In partnership with the City of Red Deer, we operate two main urban agriculture project sites; Common Ground Garden Project (CGGP) and Piper Creek Restoration Agriculture Project (PCRAP). CGGP initiated in 2020 and is a 4-acre multi-phase, brownfield redevelopment located at the former Electric, Light & Power site in the southwest corner in the Capstone development area in downtown Red Deer. It consists of a number of interactive, accessible, above-ground, 4-season gardening spaces designed to be moveable and intends to increase food security, encourage social enterprise, share knowledge, and create social connections. We demonstrate 4-season growing through … Continue reading YA Apprenticeship 2024: Red Deer, AB – Common Ground Garden Project →

YA APPRENTICESHIP 2023: Lac La Biche, AB – Sand Springs Ranch

Posted by Kolby Peterson on March 24, 2023 4 Comments

Are you an aspiring farmer looking to gain hands on experience on a large organic family farm? Sand Springs Ranch is offering a unique apprenticeship program providing experience in either 1) organic, grass fed beef cow/calf operation or 2) organic vegetable production and marketing. We are accepting up to 4 apprentices for 2023. About the Farm Sand Springs Ranch, located near Lac La Biche, Alberta is run by Ty and Janice Shelton, their daughter Jolene and son Tyler. Including Ty and Janice’s grandchildren, there are 3 generations working on this farm. A 100 % Certified Organic farm, Sand Springs Ranch includes … Continue reading YA APPRENTICESHIP 2023: Lac La Biche, AB – Sand Springs Ranch →

March 12, 2023: DEMMITT, AB – Peace Country Winter Social

Posted by Kolby Peterson on February 16, 2023

You’re invited to a Peace Country Winter Social at the Demmitt Hall, AB! You don’t have to be a farmer to join in! Farmer Socials connect farmers as well as anyone who loves food, farming, and getting out onto the land. All are welcome! The truth of the matter is – it has been too long. The farmers of the Peace Country want to get together, eat some good food, catch up on who’s doing what on which farm, and indulge in our favourite things – eating and talking farmin’. Of course, the pub will be open. This will be … Continue reading March 12, 2023: DEMMITT, AB – Peace Country Winter Social →

YA APPRENTICESHIP 2023: Mayerthorpe, AB – Backwoods Buffalo Ranch

Posted by Kolby Peterson on November 30, 2022 8 Comments

Are you an aspiring farmer looking to gain experience on a diversified farm? Are you wanting to learn about raising pastured livestock, including Plains Bison? Backwoods Buffalo Ranch is offering a unique farming apprenticeship; join their team! About the Farm Backwoods Buffalo Ranch is owned and operated by Chad and Laurie Trigg, a Metis family from rural Mayerthorpe, Alberta. Backwoods is an organically minded ranch and homestead situated on 320 stunning acres of natural Alberta prairie grasses, striking woods, rolling hills and scenic river views. They raise a variety of proteins including: pastured Pure Plains Bison, Pastured Pork, Pastured Chicken … Continue reading YA APPRENTICESHIP 2023: Mayerthorpe, AB – Backwoods Buffalo Ranch →

YA APPRENTICESHIP 2024: Cold Lake, AB – 350 Farms

Posted by Kolby Peterson on November 28, 2022 4 Comments

Are you an aspiring farmer looking for a unique opportunity to learn about agritourism, pastured poultry, and a farrow-to-finish kunekune pigs? If you want to grow your own food, interface with the public, and participate in culinary wizardry, then 350 Farms might be the apprenticeship for you. About the Farm 350 Farms is a 160 acre farm, raising pastured meats and offering agri-tourism and farm-to-table culinary events. The farm has followed its owners, Kasey and Renaud, as they have moved around, but it has found its forever home near Bonnyville, Alberta. They are also spearheading Alberta’s first net zero Belgian … Continue reading YA APPRENTICESHIP 2024: Cold Lake, AB – 350 Farms →