What was lost can be rebuilt.
Real food the way nature meant it — and the people worth sharing it with.
Why We're Here
The food changed — slowly, then all at once. A preservative here, a new material in the supply chain. Compounds the human body has no evolutionary context for, in places we didn't expect. We went looking for what we wanted — clean milk, honest meat, food raised to a standard we could trust. We couldn't find it. So we found a piece of land and started building.
Lightfield Farm is a quarter section of pasture, hayfield, and forest in rural Alberta, about an hour north of Edmonton. We raise animals on open land and produce food using traditional methods. Food and friends go hand in hand. We take the best of what modernity offers. And we leave the rest.
What We Do
The Food
Dairy, cheese, butter, cream. Meat birds on pasture — no corn, soy, or canola. Pastured pork, lamb, and eggs. Everything produced on-farm to the standard we feed our own family.
The Community
A private membership association — families who know each other and share in what we produce. The food is central, but the people are the point.
Learn about membershipThe Land
Open land backing onto crown land. Rotational grazing, no synthetic inputs — grassland birds, pollinators, native plants. Every year, there's more life here than the year before.
No vaccines. No corn, no soy, no canola. No synthetic inputs.
The standard we keepLearn With Us
We believe knowledge should be shared, not hoarded. We offer a live-in apprenticeship in dairy and cheese making — from milking and animal care to aged wheels in the cave. You'll also muck stalls, move hay, and shovel your share of cow patties. That's the deal.
All food provided. Some meals shared. About 30 hours a week of real work in exchange for real skills you can take home with you.
See the ApprenticeshipNot everyone comes to work — you can also just come stay.
On the Farm Right Now — Midsummer
The lambs are growing fast on pasture. Cheese making is in full swing, and the cheese cave is filling up with aged artisan wheels — months of quiet work, laid down for the winter. Evenings are long, the grass is tall. Members share in all of it.
Become part of the next seasonInterested?
If what we're building sounds like what you've been looking for, reach out.