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Beacon Hill Children's Farm

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Beacon Hill Children's Farm

www.beaconhillchildrensfarm.ca Our goal is to help children develop a respect for animals that will remain with them for life. Enjoy your visit!

The Beacon Hill Children’s Farm, located within beautiful Beacon Hill Park of Victoria, B.C., is pleased to bring the farm animal experience into the city. Operated since 1985 by the Koenders family in conjunction with the Beacon Hill Farm Society, the Beacon Hill Children’s Farm takes pride in providing both an educational and economical form of entertainment for the whole family. The hands-on ex

perience, particularly with the most popular feature that is the goat petting area, encourages children be compassionate toward living creatures.

07/01/2025

Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦 It's a beautiful day at the farm and we're open today until 5pm. Drop by and say hi to our sweet baby goats and many other delightful farm friends! 🐖🐐🦙🦚🐓🐥

06/21/2025

Our Farm Anniversary 2025: This was such an awesome day (and weekend) full of fun activities, educational information, catching up with old friends and meeting new animals lovers.
A day filled with happy vibes, many smiles and lots of new memories made.
Thank you to everyone who helped to make it happen, before and during the day and to everyone who came to visit - together we made it a really great day.

We will continue some of the activities through the summer and are looking forwards to many more goat time together.

06/13/2025

Our 40th anniversary activities are still going on till Sunday as long as supplies last. Stamping papers, scavenger hunt, and colouring , come on down to the Farm and participate ❤️❤️

06/01/2025

Do you remember Big Bob? 🐮

In April 1999, the Beacon Hill Children’s Farm hosted this massive 3,700 lb Chianina x Limousin bull for about three weeks.

His appetite was as huge as he was. Big Bob could eat about 15 kilograms of grain each day, plus A LOT of hay at snacktime. Big Bob belonged to a vet on the mainland and was shown at the PNE in the summer.

We’ll never forget his time at the farm. He made a enormous impression 😉

Do you have any photos of Big Bob at our farm? Or any other photos at our farm to share? Please enter them into our Farm Photo Contest!
How to Enter:
Submit your photo by June 6, 2025 in one of the following ways:
👉 Tag or mention on Instagram or Facebook and feel free to add a caption of the year of your favourite farm photo (if known)
📧 Email it to [email protected]
📬 Drop off a printed copy at the farm during opening hours (815 Circle Dr, Victoria, BC) — be sure to write your name and email/ phone number on the back! Note: hard copies won’t be returned, so don’t give us your only one.
Prizes:
We’re giving away adorable farm shirts (children and youth sizes, with a few limited adult sizes). Perfect for the animal lover in your life!
Winners Will Be Contacted:
Social media entries: through Facebook/Instagram

Email or print entries: via email/ phone
Prize pickup details will be included in the message

All submitted photos or stories may be shared publicly on our social media or displayed as part of our anniversary celebration.
We can’t wait to see your pictures! 💛

05/31/2025

Rain or shine- the farm is open today!

Rainy days at the farm tend to be much slower with visitors and they give our 5 newest farm residents- 8 days old baby goats- a chance to spend time in the big goat area during opening hours.
Visitors today might be so lucky to meet those little ones close up and in person- but in between they also have to go back in their stall with mum for snuggles and sleep.

Spend a rainy day cuddling some goats!

05/27/2025

Hey Kids! We need you!

To celebrate our upcoming 40th Anniversary, we’re inviting local children to create and share farm-inspired artwork to help decorate the farm.

Simply be creative and let all of us see why the farm is so special! Any kind of artwork or written story is welcome.
- Draw your favorite farm resident
- Share your favourite farm memory
- Let us know what you have learned when coming to the farm

Submitted artwork will be displayed publicly at the farm as part of our anniversary celebrations, and may also be shared on our social media.

Young artists and their parents/caregivers/teachers can drop their creations off at the farm anytime between 10am-4:30pm, 7 days a week. Your name can be included on artwork, but first names only please as they will be displayed publicly.

We can’t wait to see your artwork or read your stories and share them with our visitors.

THANK YOU!!

05/26/2025

Welcome to the farm family!

Last Friday was a big day at the farm with the arrival of five little ones: We are happy to share the exiting news that both our expecting goat mums Snowdrop and her cousin Lemon Sorbet went into labour the same day.

First up was Snowdrop - the more decisive of the two - and in one of the fastest and smoothest deliveries in years she gave birth to two healthy and strong boys. They were up in no time and proud mum Snowdrop was showing her love with kisses, cleaning them up and both boys nursed right away.

When the team was just done helping and tending Snowdrop and her kids, Lemon who as been chatting all along with her friend and the new kids went into labour too. Due to the position of her babies this delivery was a little more difficult, but with some adjustment and assistance from the team Lemon delivered 3 healthy babies, two boys and one girl. All kids are strong and nursing well, despite that two of the babies being much smaller than the third one (the girl and one of the boys), they are all active and thriving.

Both mums made it very well through labour. They are strong, have a lot of milk and are both loving and caring mothers.
During the day each little family spends the time in their stalls where you can see them over a gate. Every day (before and after visiting hours) they already get out for some playtime to explore the place that is their home, stretch their little legs and bounce around. Soon they’ll be ready to come out and meet new friends.

Thank you to all the visitors who came by on this exciting busy day and witnessed the arrival of our newest farm residents.
Thank you for being respectful and patient and giving the mums, their kids and the team space where we needed it.
Thank you for all your questions and kind words. We love to share the stories about our work and life around the animals. They never stop to amaze us- their strength, love and trust.

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05/22/2025

Lights, camera, cuteness!
Wednesday morning, May 28th, we’re teaming up with .vlo to film special content for Beacon Hill Children’s Farm’s 40th anniversary—and we want YOU to be part of it!

Come say hi, check out the behind-the-scenes action, and maybe even make your movie debut alongside our furry stars!

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05/18/2025

Thank you so much for visiting and for the beautiful post! Come back again soon. 💕🐐

05/15/2025

Grey day but we are still open till 5pm.☔️

Rainy days are great to spend some quiet time around the farm and especially the goats wait for visitors and appreciate every cuddle even more. ❤️

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Victoria, BC

Opening Hours

Monday	10am - 5pm
Tuesday	10am - 5pm
Wednesday	10am - 5pm
Thursday	10am - 5pm
Friday	10am - 5pm
Saturday	10am - 5pm
Sunday	10am - 5pm

Website

http://www.beaconhillchildrensfarm.ca/

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