Our Story
Welcome!
Welcome to Campion Farm! We are a small, family farm on 6.5 acres in beautiful Saanichton, BC. We produce and sell free range eggs, lamb, pork, weaner piglets and seasonal summer vegetables.
Why Farming?
The birth of our children ignited a desire to live gently in the world. Like all new parents, we felt the responsibility of being role models. We knew they would soon be asking us a million questions, large and small. It seemed important to have real answers for those big questions - answers we could feel good about and believe in.
But what DID we believe, exactly? What should we teach our children about how to live in the world? Suddenly, we had a growing list of our own big questions.
A sunny winter day on the farm.
So Many Questions
Why do we live the way we do? How can we leave our children a world less damaged?
The news was full of stories about how modern, large-scale agriculture is a major contributor to greenhouse gas emissions, water pollution, antibiotic-resistant pathogens, and loss of soil ecology.
But wait - we all have to eat! So what was the answer? Should we become vegetarian? Vegan? What is a human's natural diet, anyway? Could organic, sustainable, regenerative or permaculture farms really produce enough to feed the world? Or even feed a local population?
Julie with the first lamb born on the farm.
How much land does a person really need to feed themselves? How much land does a city need? How secure is our modern food supply? How much do we rely on imported food? What will happen if we actually run out of fossil fuels? Is alternative energy the answer? Or is reducing consumption the only solution? Is that even possible?
We are definitely not the first people to go on this journey, and everyone's destination is different. We got overwhelmed. We worried about how the world's population should feed itself, but we weren't even feeding ourselves. So that's where we started.
As we work to develop the farm, we are guided by the desire to exist in harmony with the natural world, while feeding ourselves and our community. We are constant students of regenerative farming and permaculture. To learn more about our practices, visit our Products page, or better yet, come visit us in person!
