By Sheldon Spackman

Local families enjoy Spring on the Farm at Sunnybrook

May 26, 2018 | 5:35 PM

It was a day filled with sunshine, baby animals, tractors, trains and children at Sunnybrook Farm and Museum in Red Deer on Saturday.

The annual Spring on the Farm celebration allowed people of all ages to enjoy a country pancake breakfast, garage sale, home-made cookie walk, tractor pulls, antique toy display, bouncy castle, wagon and barrel-train rides plus other children’s games and activities.

Not to mention the donkeys, horses, calves, chickens, turkeys, pigs, rabbits, sheep and goats that spend their summer at Sunnybrook Farm.

Ian Warwick, Executive Director of Sunnybrook Farm and Museum says the by-donation event is their first major public fundraiser of the year.

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“We’ve got up to three thousand people coming from all over the city and all over central Alberta to have a fun, family day at the museum,” says Warwick. “The volunteers are here in full force, they’ve had a pancake breakfast this morning, they’ve got a cookie-walk, they’ve got the concession going, the staff are running the barrel train and we’ve got the tractor pull and a garage sale. It’s just a great day to come and visit the museum when all of our activities are going on.”

He says if you haven’t been to Sunnybrook Farm lately, there are lots of new developments to see.

“We’ve been expanding south and telling the story of the farm community,” explains Warwick. “We’ve been building new buildings like the Calder School is about to be finished, all our restoration work on that building. We have the Roseneath Garage, the Cooperative Mercantile store that tells the story of the Co-op movement and you see kind of one of the original stores, it’s just lots to see.”

“This is really a treasure in the middle of Red Deer and we want everyone to enjoy it,” continues Warwick. “Our volunteers work so hard, we have 85 volunteers that donate almost 10,000 hours a year to maintain this site. They’re mowing grass and restoring tractors and doing all the work behind the scenes that make it such a vibrant place.”

He says Sunnybrook Farm and Museum is now open seven days a week for the summer season with anyone welcome to drop by and enjoy the setting.

“It’s by-donation, you can come every day and it’s a beautiful park-like site with picnic tables,” adds Warwick. “Bring a lunch and come and spend a couple of hours. There’s a playground here and we just want people to come and enjoy it.”