A Century of Farming

An important step in reconciliation is the acknowledgement that the crown land we have farmed for over a century is land occupied, travelled, and cared for by Indigenous peoples since time immemorial.  We recognize our Alberta farm is on treaty 6 territory and the traditional meeting grounds, gathering place, and travelling route to the Cree, Saulteaux (So-toe), Blackfoot, Métis, Dene (De-nay) and Nakota Sioux (Sue). 

​Horse Hill is a historic farming community dating back to the 1800's.  Our owner Jackie's great-grandfather William Clark immigrated from Scotland in 1861, and by 1891 he had a family farm in the Fort Saskatchewan area.  Jackie's grandfather, William George Clark, built the farmhouse and started grain and animal farming on our land in 1920.

Birth of a Berry Farm

When owners Jackie and Dave moved out to the Clark farm as newlyweds in 1993, they renovated the craftsman style 1920's home and embraced acreage living.  They never dreamed of being food growers, but a good neighbor (and cousin) Todd Clark proposed planting raspberries in the "excellent black soil" of NE Edmonton. With Todd as our partner, we planted 3500 raspberry cane in spring of 2007.  We opened the Horse Hill Berry Farm Raspberry U-Pick in the summer of 2010 and continued to plant more acres each year.  As of 2021 we have 15 acres of raspberries for U-Pick, and our children Ellie, Sam and Joe help out each summer.

Remembering Farmer Dave
​ (1961-2019)

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Each summer Dave was our field manager who supervised weeders, mowed the grassy rows and then spent 6 weeks in the berry shack helping customers every day.  Folks who visited the farm came to know him as "Farmer Dave" as he always had on his farm t-shirt, well-worn jeans and an old straw hat. He died in September 2019 after a brief cancer illness.

​ He was the farm's rock in every way; he was our family's rock in every way.  We miss him and honour his memory by continuing to provide U-Pick Raspberries every summer to the Edmonton community.