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About the Farm
Sleepy G Farm is located at the base of the Sibley peninsula, approximately 45kms east of Thunder Bay. At the tip of the peninsula lies a unique rock formation known as the Sleeping Giant. Our farm is only a few kilometres outside of Sleeping Giant Provincial Park, and is named after the infamous character Nanabijou (Sleeping Giant) that has come to be Thunder Bay’s most notable landmark.
Sleepy G Farm is in the small community of Pass Lake, which is at the base of the peninsula. Pass Lake was settled by Danish immigrants beginning in the 1920s. The adventurous and hard working Danish pioneers built a vibrant community based on farming, fishing, and forestry. Today, farming and fishing continue to be important activities within our community.
In 1945 Mr. Dick Hansen (son of Danish immigrants) purchased the 171 acre property we now farm for $85.50. In the years that followed, Dick cleared fields and built a successful dairy farm which continued to operate into the 1980s.
In 2005 we purchased the old farm and our work thus far has largely been to reclaim the old fields, install new fencing, repair buildings, and begin rehabilitating the land in order to support vegetable crops.
Our farming philosophy is based on the principles of traditional small scale farming which characterized agriculture up until the 1940s. Prior to WWII “organic farming” was not a concept, it was simply the norm. In the decades that followed farms abandoned traditional farming knowledge and methods in favour of a new system, which relied on fossil fuel based inputs. Today, as the world experiences the instability of rapidly dwindling fossil fuel energy, agriculture is at a crossroads between continuing along the path we are currently on, or looking to our agricultural roots to see if traditional knowledge will help us meet the food production challenges of the future. We believe that the return of small farms will be the next agricultural revolution, and Sleepy G Farm is excited to be a part of it!
Sleepy G Farm is in the small community of Pass Lake, which is at the base of the peninsula. Pass Lake was settled by Danish immigrants beginning in the 1920s. The adventurous and hard working Danish pioneers built a vibrant community based on farming, fishing, and forestry. Today, farming and fishing continue to be important activities within our community.
In 1945 Mr. Dick Hansen (son of Danish immigrants) purchased the 171 acre property we now farm for $85.50. In the years that followed, Dick cleared fields and built a successful dairy farm which continued to operate into the 1980s.
In 2005 we purchased the old farm and our work thus far has largely been to reclaim the old fields, install new fencing, repair buildings, and begin rehabilitating the land in order to support vegetable crops.
Our farming philosophy is based on the principles of traditional small scale farming which characterized agriculture up until the 1940s. Prior to WWII “organic farming” was not a concept, it was simply the norm. In the decades that followed farms abandoned traditional farming knowledge and methods in favour of a new system, which relied on fossil fuel based inputs. Today, as the world experiences the instability of rapidly dwindling fossil fuel energy, agriculture is at a crossroads between continuing along the path we are currently on, or looking to our agricultural roots to see if traditional knowledge will help us meet the food production challenges of the future. We believe that the return of small farms will be the next agricultural revolution, and Sleepy G Farm is excited to be a part of it!
