Our Vision

Innisfree Farm is an Educational Centre.  We offer workshops and other community programs on herbal medicine, organic gardening, permaculture, horticulture therapy, nutrition, and other relevant topics.

We run Internship programs where volunteers and apprentices come for longer stays to practice what they learn.   We also run programs for school children of the Comox Valley to appreciate the garden and learn to grow food. 

The Apothecary Garden is a teaching and therapeutic tool.  Students from the Comox Valley and beyond, from Naturopathic Schools and Herbal Colleges in Canada and the USA, all apprentice in the gardens, the clinic and the dispensary.   The Gardens, especially the flower gardens, are available for weddings and other celebrations.

Innisfree Farm is a Healing Centre.  We offer programs to empower, heal, and create community.  There is a seven circuit planted labyrinth, a metaphor for a Journey to the Centre - available to the public.

Gardens without Borders operates from Innisfree Farm.  It is a non profit organization dedicated to the traditional knowledge of plants and Horticulture Therapy.

From June to October, the vegetable and culinary herb gardens supply a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) weekly box program, a weekend neighborhood market stand, and local restaurants, with a variety of vegetables and culinary herbs, medicinal teas, flowers, berries, and eggs.  We keep a seed collection of many of our plants, and we sell organic seeds and seedlings.

We are implementing our vision. In 2007 we started the Horticulture Therapy programs, the vegetable, and flower gardens, and ran many workshops.  In 2008, we planted the meditation garden, dug the fish pond, and planted 1200 fruit and nut trees, berry bushes and Christmas trees, and ran many workshops.  In 2009 we started a CSA for the neighborhood - a first in Royston and in the Comox Valley, we built and planted the wheelchair-accessible labyrinth, the Apothecary teaching garden, and we had our first Internship Program with 8 interns who each stayed two to three months as an educational experience in organic farming, medical herbalism and horticulture therapy.  In 2010, a flock of laying hens, a yurt, a solar greenhouse, a burgeoning Horticulture Therapy Program, and plenty of young and not so young folks learning at the farm.  In 2011, house renos to make room for an office and a community learning centre.  In 2012, a chef in residence, a food safe kitchen, a revamped Internship Program, and we process the produce of the farm.

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