Experience fresh air, big open spaces, and get a taste for farm-to-table living.
Designed to immerse you in Delta’s farming experiences, breweries, and forest bathing landscapes, it’s a day trip, although it may seem like you’ve been away for much longer.
Farm Hop
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1. Schoolhouse Farm + Wellness
This very cool destination blends wellness with a connection to land. Schoolhouse Farm + Wellness offers a unique opportunity to experience simply BE-ing in the great outdoors on their pastoral farm. Their events calendar is often packed with social evenings with friends, live music, and authentic BBQ, enjoying an extended sunset in their open fields.
Their self-serve farm stand is open daily, join a workshop, or join Schoolhouse Farm Club Hub for an abundance of food and flowers from their fields over spring, summer, and fall months.
Locals Tip: Sign up for a bouquet making workshop and hone your design skills!
2. Barnside Brewing Co.
All that farm-fresh air has likely made you hungry, and hopefully, thirsty. Just a few plots down you’ll find Barnside Brewery, one of Delta’s premier stops on the South of the Fraser BC Ale Trail. Barnside is a unique microbrewery because it’s rooted in glass-to-table beer production. While sipping your tasting flight, you’ll be in earshot of their proprietary hops grown on-site and fields of cranberries that are key to their seasonal treat, Cranberry Tart Ale. They offer a delicious sharing, snacking, and lunch & brunch menu inside or on their newly, quite cozy, covered dog-friendly patio. Be sure to fill up a growler keepsake for home!
Locals Tip: Think you know your stuff? Wednesday nights are competitive Trivia Nights at Barnside!
3. Deas Island
Time to walk off your brewery indulgence riverside. Just across the highway is one of Delta's regional parks, Deas Island. Home to Delta’s Rowing Club, it offers a scenic, easy walking trail alongside the Fraser River with lookouts to climb for bird spotting, wildlife, and fishing boat watching.
Did you know you can also paddle these waterways? In fact, there is loads to discover from ol' shipwrecks to watery laneways. Launch your kayak or SUP and make an extended afternoon of it, and paddle to RiverHouse Restaurant, arriving by dock for your patio lunch.
Locals Tip: Stay on the trailhead for the unique 'top of the tunnel' perspective.
4. Harris NurseryLand
Before heading home, allow time for browsing Harris NurseryLand. The ‘land’ is based on its size - Harris Nursery is a 5-acre gardening center offering everything from lawn care needs, gardening tools, landscaping inspiration, floral arrangements, and more. It’s the perfect spot to create your centerpiece for tonight’s farm-to-table feast.
Photo Credits @ SchoolHouseFarms, @BarnsideBrewing, and @HarrisNurseryLand.