The Story of Yellow Point Farms

Sometimes, becoming part of a place begins with discovering what has been growing just down the road all along.

I first found Yellow Point Farms a little over a year ago, after getting married and moving to Yellow Point. Barely a block from our new home was a lively family farm with a welcoming store, fields of blueberries and garlic, and a petting farm filled with miniature animals.

It felt like stumbling upon a small world of its own.

Yellow Point Farms is run by Justin and Becca Dault, who have transformed what began as a small market blueberry farm into a diverse, sustainable and educational agri-tourism destination. Today, they grow blueberries, garlic and an ever-changing assortment of seasonal produce using natural, regenerative farming practices. They also raise miniature livestock, including Nigerian Dwarf goats, Babydoll sheep, KuneKune pigs and poultry.

Every part of the farm is connected. The animals aren’t there simply because they are so cute to meet—although they certainly are! Each has a role within the farm’s wider ecosystem, helping to create the healthy soils and balanced environment on which the crops depend.

Shortly after discovering the farm, I began helping Justin and Becca tell its story through photography, video and social media. Since then, I’ve photographed everything from newborn animals and vegetable starts to blueberry harvests and sheep shearing.

One of the things I love most about photographing a farm is that its story is never still. Every season brings a completely different rhythm.

In spring, tiny green leaves emerge from the soil while new animals arrive in the barnyard, and the farm gradually seems to wake up around them. Summer brings long days in the blueberry fields, buckets filling with ripe fruit and visitors stopping at the store for something freshly harvested. Around then comes the garlic harvest and countless smaller moments that reveal how much work takes place behind everything arranged so beautifully on the farm-store shelves.

Those behind-the-scenes photographs are some of my favourites. They show the farm as a living, working place: hands in the soil, boots between the rows, berries being gathered and animals being cared for. They help connect the finished product to the people, land and labour behind it.

The animals, naturally, tend to be the stars.

Yellow Point Farms is home to a wonderfully characterful collection of goats, sheep, pigs, chickens and other farmyard residents. Photographing them is rarely predictable. There are curious faces edging toward the lens, goats climbing where they probably shouldn’t and the occasional carefully planned photograph interrupted by an animal with its own creative direction.

That unpredictability is part of the fun—and part of what makes visiting the farm so memorable.

The petting farm allows families to meet and interact with the animals while learning more about their place on a working farm. Visitors can spend time with the Nigerian Dwarf goats, watch the Babydoll sheep grazing and meet the KuneKune pigs and poultry. It’s playful and welcoming, but also educational, giving children and adults a closer look at the relationships between farming, food, animals and the land. Explore the Yellow Point Farms visitor experience.

Some of the photographs I’ve created there have also been less about the farm’s products and more about the families who visit. For Mother’s Day and Father’s Day, I photographed the family together among the animals and fields. These sessions felt like a natural extension of the farm’s story. Yellow Point Farms isn’t simply a place where people shop—it is somewhere families return to, explore together and build memories.

At the centre of the visitor experience is the farm store, filled with food grown on the property as well as products from other local makers and producers. (You can find my Of Surge & Keel serving boards there!) Depending on the season, visitors might leave with fresh or frozen blueberries, tea, garlic, vegetables, eggs, jam, plants or something else grown or made nearby.

It’s the kind of place that makes buying food feel personal. You can see the fields where the blueberries were picked, meet the people who grew the garlic and watch farm life continuing just beyond the store.

That connection is one of the reasons I’ve loved working with Yellow Point Farms. Social media can sometimes feel very far removed from the real world, but in this case, its purpose is wonderfully tangible. A photograph of a bucket of blueberries, a newborn piglet or a a little chick in the farm store can inspire someone to get in the car, visit the farm and bring home something grown in their own community.

The story doesn’t end on a screen. It continues when someone walks through the gate.

For me, helping tell that story has also been a way of becoming more connected to my own community. I get to document what is being planted, raised and harvested practically on my doorstep—and help more people discover the farm just as I did.

Yellow Point Farms has grown into much more than a place to buy blueberries. It is a working farm, a gathering place, a hands-on learning experience and a joyful introduction to local agriculture. It brings together crops, animals, families and visitors in a way that feels vibrant, open and genuinely rooted in the land.

And for a photographer, it offers an almost endless collection of stories, growing just down the road.