Agriculture in the Classroom - Programs

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South East Region

AAFC Shelterbelt Centre
A self guided, driving tour of the tree production and agroforestry research fields and facilities of the AAFC-PFRA Shelterbelt Centre. The tour includes hedge trials, conifer seedbeds, heeling-in plots, stooling beds, deciduous tree production areas and various plantings ranging in dates from 1902 to the current year. During the tour, visitors can also stop and enjoy the tree & shrub arboretum, perennial gardens and picnic areas. The self guided driving tour is only available during office hours, Monday to Friday. However, the picnic areas are open to the public 7 days a week. A self guided tour map and commentary are available from the main reception desk at the Shelterbelt Centre office.

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pfratree@agr.gc.ca

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http://www.agr.gc.ca/pfra/shelterbelt.htm

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Heartland Livestock Services
The best day for a tour is on our regular Wednesday sale to give participants the full auction experience. Large groups of small children should tour on a non sale day for their safety. The tour will begin at the receiving gate and continue through the process we use to sell cattle, as well as the processing area where cattle are branded, dehorned, castrated, and vaccinated. The tour also includes history of livestock marketing and current programs and regulations. The tour ends in the sale ring to watch the sale in progress and a question and answer period. Questions are encouraged through the entire tour. Participants should be aware that the tour will be through the barn area and they should dress accordingly.

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sheldon.nicholson@hls.ca

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Ravine Ecological Preserve
The Ravine Ecological Preserves consist of a 1.7 mile (2.8 km) hiking trail, part of which is a “floating boardwalk” that works its way through grassland, aquatic, and aspen parkland habitat. The parks mandate is to preserve the natural integrity of the site for passive recreational pursuits and ecological education. Through the aspen forest, songbirds, mammals, amphibians, and reptiles make their home. Plants such as saskatoon berry, chokecherry, hazelnut, twining honeysuckle, and wood rose all present themselves to the hiker along the trail.

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leisure@yorkton.ca

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Sask Power Shand Greenhouse
Group tours of Shand Greenhouse are best arranged in advance. Please contact the Shand Greenhouse. A second option (only available June-August) is arranging a tour through the Estevan Tourism booth. When arranged through Estevan Tourism, tours include Shand Power Station and a coal mine.

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Sask Power

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Yorkton Western Development Museum
The Yorkton Western Development Museum has recreated the times and styles of some of the many immigrants who settled in Western Canada. For it was here that sons and daughters from more than fifty cultural backgrounds around the world left their ancestral soil to take up residence in this new and often frightening land. Outdoors, the challenge of turning sod is demonstrated in the line up of agricultural equipment, which includes the gigantic 1916 Twin city gas tractor, one of only two in North America. The Museum offers educational programs and teacher resources. Contact the museum for more information.

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Western Development Museum

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