Ruby Slipper Ranch Profile and Sustainable Farming Practices

environment · Ruby Slipper Ranch, Denman Island

Ruby Slipper Ranch, a 32-acre farm on Denman Island, practices subsistence farming with pigs, turkeys, and beef cattle, focusing on self-reliance and sustainability. The owners cultivate a diverse permaculture garden and do their own animal butchering. The farm offers a farm stay experience and promotes micro-community sharing.

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• “Ruby Slipper Ranch has a succinct understanding of self reliance and sustainability... They keep pigs, turkeys and beef cattle... The garden of raised vegetable beds is a permaculture forest... The ranch... got its name from a pair of ruby slippers left behind by one of their first wwoofers...” — The Islands Grapevine – November 16th, 2017 (November 16th, 2017)

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