Blue Jay Lake Farm, Whaletown, BC

Blue Jay Lake farm is a 300 acre property nestled in Green Valley in the heart of Cortes Island which was formerly an early 1900's homestead. We also acknowledge that the land is unceded traditional territory of regional First Nations. At the time the land was purchased by the Verschuurs in 1990, the only infrastructure (amongst an abundance of forests, fields, bluffs, swamps and three lakes) was a rough road leading towards Blue Jay Lake. The land has since been developed into a working farm with 30 acres of field, maintaining the vast majority of the land as wilderness. Blue Jay Lake farm now has a driveway, running water, phone lines, an alternative off-grid energy system (solar and hydro), gardens, orchards, greenhouses, rotational grazing fields, a barn, sawmill, 5+ homes and a number of outbuildings.