Thursday, March 28, 2024

Interior Perspectives

More today from within the Learning Centre. 


I headed to the second floor, where this painting caught my eye.


A look below.


Display panels on the walls look at the importance of bees and honey.


A look outside towards Meadowview Barn.


The Soil Lab is in a building linked to the Dairy Barn. I popped inside and had a look. This display panel looks at the importance of using soil in a responsible way.


Outside, a look towards the main entrance of the Dairy Barn. But before going there, something else drew my attention across the way.


This machine, back over by the Learning Centre, is a seed drill.

Wednesday, March 27, 2024

Learning Centre

I passed by this large tractor on the grounds.  


The barnyard of the Dairy Barn is here.


A view towards the Learning Centre.


These antique plows caught my eye.


Inside, the current exhibit is on aquaculture- fisheries being the primary example. A number of large scale photographs around the First Nations fishery industry of the Pacific Northwest were here.


This bell stood in the original horse and cattle barn, which was destroyed in a fire. It now resides here.


The aquaculture exhibit I skimmed through- though I liked the visual of this, with streamers from the high ceiling resembling seaweed.

Tuesday, March 26, 2024

Viewpoints

 In one of the barnyards where I left off yesterday, this shelter stands. A cow was having a rest inside, but looking at me as I took these shots.


Here's a good look at the Cereal Barn.


Turning around, another look at the Poultry House.


The playground here has an agriculture theme to its design.

Monday, March 25, 2024

Animals

 A mix of chickens were in this pen. 


Coming out of the Horse and Cattle Barn, I took these shots.


The barnyards outside provide the livestock inside some time out in the fresh air on winter and early spring days (weather permitting). Two donkeys were out having lunch.


In the other yard, several cows. In the background is the Cereal Barn, used for specific occasions.


A look back at the Horse and Cattle Barn.


This is the Poultry House- not in use at present, but in the warmer weather, I'd imagine the chickens, ducks, turkeys, and rabbits inside the Horse and Cattle Barn over the winter get in here, where they can go in and out from interior dens to enclosed yards on the other side of the building.

Sunday, March 24, 2024

Critters

Here's a wider view inside the Horse and Cattle Barn.


One of the cattle, having a rest. The animals here are all named- aside from the wild birds that fly in and out of the barns.


Her neighbours, a cow and calf.


Signage on the walls looks at agriculture technology.


Ribbons of a champion whose retirement is spent here- a Hereford bull by the apt name of Hercules.


Here he is, having a rest and chewing his cud. When I came by later, he was up on his feet. A powerful animal, with a fitting name.


The barn takes its power for lights and the fans from solar panels.


A rabbit pen, with some sweet faces.