This year Aroma Borealis celebrates its 10th year of operation as a manufacturer of Yukon made body care products and herbal teas from local and organic herbs, Yukon wild plants, and herbs and essential oils from around the globe. Aroma Borealis also offers educational workshops and a Weed Walk Wednesday is held regularly in Whitehorse throughout the summer.

Aroma Borealis
Bev Gray
M: 504B Main Street
      Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 2B9
T:  (867) 667-4372
Website

C&D Feeds provide a range of feed, tack, farm and animal health products, and local hay. Spring chicks are available through orders with the store. C&D Feeds also provide services in dead stock disposal and pet cremation.

Cliff Hanna Equine Dentistry Service is offering equine dental service across the Yukon and northern BC since 1990.

Community Shared Agriculture (CSA) is a partnership between a farm and a community of supporters that provides a direct link between food production and consumption. Supporters help cover the farms’ yearly operating budget by purchasing a share in the season’s harvest. In return, the farm supplies fresh produce throughout the season. Becoming a CSA member creates a responsible relationship between people and the food they eat, the land on which it is grown, and the people who grow it.

Diamond D Greenhouse sells a wide variety of bedding plants from the greenhouse in Watson Lake. These include Yukon hardy flowers, vegetables, herbs, annuals, perennials, trees, and shrubs.

Duke’s Meat provides custom sausage and meat cutting of local and wild meats.

Environmental Services provides environmental land assessment, soil, air, and water quality testing, as well as fuel tank removal and site restoration.

Farm Rental Equipment

Location d’équipement pour la ferme

Yukon Agricultural Association members can access fertilizer from bulk storage bins around the territory (see Farm descriptions). Please call the YAA for more information on how to access this program:
(867) 668-6864.

The Greenhouse at Cliffside sells bedding plants - annuals, perennials, trees, shrubs, berries, hanging baskets, and planters from April to September. Their retail store is also stocked with soil, soil amendments, and gardening products.

Look for the Giant Sunflower

La serre de Cliffside vend des plantes à massif annuelles et pluriannuelles, des arbres et des arbustes, des baies, des corbeilles suspendues et des jardinières, d’avril à septembre. Le magasin vend aussi de la terre ainsi que des produits d’amendement des sols et de jardinage.

Aux Tournesol Géant

Ibex Valley Greenhouses produces specialty varieties of annual and perennial flower bedding plants, vegetables, and herbs. They often collect seed and grow plants for individual or commercial orders. Early bedding plants are available from May. Plants are sold from their large greenhouse operation and nursery that has been in production for 12 years.

Ibex Valley Greenhouses
Pauline Steele & Alvin Steele
M: Box 20614
      Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 7A2
T:  (867) 633-4415
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Klondike Apothecary uses Yukon wildcrafted and locally grown herbs and flowers to create wonderful aromatherapy blends, body and room sprays, massage oils, herbal teas, and skin care products.

LaBerge Environmental Services have organic (not certified) hay and oats for sale from their farm. They also operate a business in site reclamation. Currently they are experimenting with barley and oats to sell as grain rather than feed.

Art Locke operates the mobile inspected slaughter and transport station. The mobile abattoir is available to farms around the territory. Costs are set per animal plus mileage.

Don Mark offers information and consultation on bee-keeping in the Yukon.

The mobile abattoir provides inspected slaughter and transportation of red meat to process for retail or farm gate sales. Livestock growers in the Yukon first need to apply to register for the mobile abattoir through Kevin Bowers at the Yukon Agriculture Branch. Requirements include meeting standards in water provision, location, and disposal.

The mobile poultry processor is a co-operatively owned unit available to poultry farmers across the territory for farm gate sales. The unit provides equipment for on-site processing of chicken and turkey. Farmers are responsible for supplying power, propane and water to the work site, as well as a crew of willing hands, and for disposing of feathers, offal, and wastewater. For details please see the user’s manual at: http://yukonfood.com/PoultryManual. pdf. A member of the owner group will bring the unit to your farm and supervise the set-up and use of the equipment. Costs are reviewed periodically and are presently set at $2 per bird plus a mileage fee for transport of the equipment. For more information and bookings, please contact Susan Ross.

Mobile Poultry Prossesing
Susan Ross
M: Box 31531
      Whitehorse, Yukon Y1A 6K8
T:  (867) 633-4201
E:  
Poultry Processing Manual

Noah Bakery sells medicinal herbs and gluten-free flour mixed from certified organic Canadian grain.

Lee Olynyk has a D-8 dozer equipped with a choice of brush, angle, or U-blade for rent, and he has a tandem breaking disc for rent.

Claire Desmarais provides organic inspection services to farms around the territory. She is the Yukon representative on the Organic Federation of Canada (OFC) national board.

The words “Certified Organic”, mean the farmer or food producer follows the Canadian Organic Standards. As part of the certification process, they must maintain records detailing inputs to and products from their operation, pay a yearly certification fee, and participate in a third party independent inspection. Producers who choose not to be “certified” still need to follow the Canadian Organic Standards to use the word “organic”.

A copy of these standards can be found at the CFIA website.

A copy of “Organic regulations and how to become certified organic” presented by Claire Desmarais at the 2007 Yukon Agriculture Conference is available at the Agriculture Branch office in Whitehorse.

Claire Desmarais offre des services d’inspection biologique aux fermes du territoire. Elle représente le Yukon au Conseil d’administration national de la Fédération biologique du Canada.

L’expression “certifié biologique” indique que le fermier ou le producteur se conforme aux Normes canadiennes de certification en agriculture biologique. Le processus de certification impose aux entrepreneurs de consigner le détail des produits livrés à leur exploitation et des produits qui en sortent, de payer un droit d’homologation et de se soumettre à l’inspection d’un tiers indépendant, entre autres obligations. Les producteurs qui préfèrent ne pas être “certifiés” doivent suivre les mêmes normes s’ils veulent apposer le terme “biologique” à leurs produits.

Vous trouverez une copie de ces normes sur le site Web de l’ACIA.

Contactez la Direction de l’Agriculture à
Whitehorse pour vous procurer une copie du document intitulé “Organic regulations and how to become certified organic”, présenté par Claire Desmarais à la conférence sur l’agriculture au Yukon en 2007.

G.J. Parent sells locally grown, native species of North-American orchids, including calypsos and yellow lady-slippers.

Doug Phillips sells greenhouse products, greenhouse kits, fire caddies, and home sprinkler systems.

Clara Sharp does custom saddle fitting and is spear-heading a clicker training group for horses.

Sourdough Sodbusters are a family owned and operated farm that has been open for 25 years. They sell sod turf and seed directly from farm.

Stacey’s Butcher Block provides cutting and processing of domestic and wild meat in addition to custom meat smoking at their retail store in Whitehorse.

World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms (WWOOF) is a cultural and agricultural help exchange program.

Yukon Gardens has been in operation for 24 years selling a large selection of bedding plants - flowers, vegetables, herbs, annuals, and perennials, as well as perennials, trees, and shrubs in pots. Yukon Gardens carries a variety of soil amendments and topsoil. They have a botanical garden for public viewing.

Yukon Meat & Sausage specializes in sausage-making, curing, ham, bacon, and grinding of custom meats. They also sell sausage-making supplies.

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