The Highland Homestead Ranch grows a wide variety of vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers. Most of the vegetables we grow are used and consumed by the homestead and neighbouring families either fresh or preserved for use during winter months. Since we produce much more than we could ever consume, the excess is sold and or traded with our local community.

All the herbs and flower we grow have both culinary and therapeutic applications. We grow them primarily to be used as teas or transformed into tinctures, salves and soaps. All our products are hand produced in micro batches from seed to table with care and love by our family.

As for fruits, we grow mainly berries due to our harsh climate. We also have an apple orchard which we use primarily to produce apple cider vinegar. New this year, we will start growing lemon and olive trees in our new greenhouse, the fruits will be used primarily in our therapeutic products.

We produce pasture raised eggs most of the year, well the months where we are not covered in 48 inches of snow that is. Even in the dead of winter our hens have a fully enclosed outdoors area to graze, take dust baths and peck on bugs. We are not in the egg production business, but we love our hens, and keep on adding more every year, so we make the excess eggs available to our local community.

Every spring we hatch our own eggs to add to our flock and to rotate the maturing hens and roosters. We also produce our own meat chickens using our own hens. The maturing time is nearly 14 weeks, double the time from commercial meat chickens, but at least we know what we are eating!

The Highland Homestead Ranch will be raising a variety of hooved animals. Some will be raised for the meat, others will be our working companions. We currently have 10 acres of pasture being prepared for our highland cows and sheep which are set to arrive in the near future, once the pasture and shelters are ready.

The Highland Homestead Ranch will be raising sheep for their meat and wool. We will also raise highland cattle for their world renown lean yet well marbled meat. Lastly, what is a ranch without horses, the Highland Homestead Ranch will be home to half dozen horses as working animals and companions. With a network of nearly 15km of trails, our horses will have room to wonder around freely year round.