Kilby Farms
August 22, 2009
Kilby Historic Site - Greeting you at the Agassiz fairgrounds the folks from the Kilby museum will be offering you breakfast.
Breakfast starting at 8am featuring Back Porch coffee and a variety of breakfast items including fresh fruit salad. muffins. and breakfast wraps (which will be made to order on site). Come sit under the tent, enjoy a coffee and wrap while reviewing the map. Take the “slow” route home on Hwy #7 (Lougheed Hwy) and stop in at the Kilby Historic Site. Show your Slow Food Cycle Tour brochure and enjoy free admission. (Open until 5 pm). Located near the junction of the Harrison and Fraser Rivers, the Kilby Historic Site stands as the only reminder of the once thriving community of Harrison Mills. The restaurant will be offering our regular sandwich and lunch menu from 1 pm until 5 pm.
Step back in time to the 1920s with costumed interpreters, as you explore the magnificent 1906 General Store museum, Manchester House Hotel and Post Office. A visit to the 5 acre BC heritage site includes visiting our working farm filled with friendly animals that include a heritage bronze turkey who takes a keen interest in all visitors and who conversationally gobbles to the farm guests. We also have contented hogs who happily root around in their traditional piggery. Spend time throwing apples to our Jersey cow, Daisy, or feeding our lovely Angora goat, Hannah. But watch out for the cunning craft of Brother, our Saanen goat and thief-in-training. Chi Chi is another wonderful animal, a very shy brown Shetland. Free feed always available.
Rest in our shady orchard, and stop by our unique country gift shop and our quaint home-style restaurant. You can stay and camp at the 22-site campground on the scenic Harrison Bay.
Kilby Historic Site is located at 215 Kilby Road in Harrison Mills; just thirty minutes east of Mission and west of Harrison Hot Springs on scenic Highway #7. For more information visit our website at http://www.kilby.ca or call us at 604-796-9576.
