What’s not to love about Far Enough Farm, next to Centreville Amusement Park on Toronto Island.
You can hop on the ferry (or more sorta wait and shuffle, in the busy summer season) and meet 40+ farmyard animals and birds. For free (excluding the ferry ride)!
I’ve loved visiting the farm since I was a little kid, and I’m counting it as a “museum” for my 100 Museums Challenge project, since it is an animal museum, where you learn about farm life. Incidentally, I was expecting there to be educational panels, as on previous visits, which would have made the place more museum-y, but they seem not to have been installed this season (?).
In any case, as it happens, this particular visit was in the (hot, humid) evening, just after the farm hands had put most of the animals to bed (I think??). I did see roaming peacocks, rooting mini pot bellied pigs, pecking chickens, and foraging geese.
My favourite animals, the Romanov sheep, were (I think??) down for the night in their red shed. I say “I think” because I’m not sure and shouldn’t presume. There’s been flooding on the Islands, as recently as June 2019 (video), but the sheep (and horse, llama, cow, goats, etc.) are all still introduced on the website’s Meet the Animals page ( ), so I’m going to say the sheep were just away getting their rest.
I’m a sucker for small animals, so it was probably just as well that the farm hands were closing down the barn with the indoor animals when I arrived. The baby rabbits are just too much for me.
The farm, established in 1959, was threatened with potential closure in 2012 (due to budget cuts by the, ahem, mayor at that time). I’m so glad it survived.
I’ll have to return again when the sheep are up and about.
Side note: the swan boats were up on pallets yesterday evening behind Far Enough Farm, surrounded by sandbags and muddy ground. Was this just for the night, or the season …? I don’t know.
Far Enough Farm is museum no. 30 in my #100museums challenge (see 100 Museums Challenge).