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| (Offert en français) These agricultural tours feature are among our most popular cultural holidays in Canada. Staged in our fascinating region of the Great Plains, known for years as the breadbasket of the World, things have changed a little | | since. Increased competition and the changing farming environment have incited agricultural producers to develop new farm management practices and develop new technology that is better adapted to dryland and irrigated farming; to ranching and | | grazing activities. In essence, agricultural producers have increased efficiencies in their operations and the experiences below are carefully staged field days that will all take your breath away... from the Arm River Huttterite Colony Tours to research farms. | |
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Arm River Hutterite Colony Tour in Canada
Half or full day (price may change)
Come and meet some of our friendliest neighbours on the Arm River Hutterite Colony tour near Regina. This is an agricultural community like few others, as our Hutterian friends live in a communal setting which allows them to pool their resources and increase efficiencies. This tightly knit community welcomes visitors and the opportunity to share how they live with guests from other parts of the world. Great Excursions Founder, Claude-Jean Harel, and his family are proud of the relationship they have established with the community over the years, bringing filmakers, photographers to capture some of the spirit that binds this beautiful people.
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Big Muddy Badlands of Canada: a landscape with navigation challenges
One day
Some think of Saskatchewan (Canada) as an unending plain of wheat fields interrupted by grain elevators. The Big Muddy is anything but - a rough landscape of rugged hills and craggy buttes 100 miles south of Regina, sparsely covered with sage, cactus and a grey-leafed bush known as wolf willow. For centuries, this spectacular and solitary expanse has attracted seekers of isolation, from the native peoples of the region to outlaws in need of concealment. The Big Muddy Badlands fit in a 3.2-kilometre wide valley of eroded earth and sandstone along Big Muddy Creek, the result of flowing meltwater from glacier lake Agassiz that extended all the way to Lake Superior 11,000 to 10,000 years ago. An excursion along its banks is like time travel to an era when the forces of nature were of a different magnitude.
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Indian Head Shelterbelt Centre and Experimental Farm Tour
1 day
Few government agencies can claim to have had as much impact on the Prairie landscape as the PFRA. Following one of the harshest droughts on Canadian soil during the 'dirty 30's', the Indian Head Shelterbelt Centre has played a central role in the survival of the family farm for over 60 years.
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Tour of the Missouri Coteau in Canada
1 day
As the tour group leaves Regina , you will see the Dirt Hills in the distance: a section of hummocky moraine area made up of glacial debris that was formed either along a large ice-front or around masses of stagnant ice. From the top you stand about 220 meters above the surrounding plain. The top is dominated by knobs and kettle topography. It is part of the vast Missouri Coteau glacial complex that extends in Canada from Manitoba to western Saskatchewan.
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