Farm Visits

Join the owner Heidi for a delightful one-hour farm tour where you can immerse yourself in the serene beauty of our coastal farm property and meet our charming animal companions. This tour offers a unique opportunity to interact with our friendly Highlander cows, adorable alpacas, curious chickens, and our gentle giant, Branigan, our Irish Wolfhound, that is guaranteed to improve your well-being and happiness!

After the tour, feel free to take a relaxing walk along our forest trail where you will encounter bees hard at work making honey in their hives. Or walk along our coastline high on the cliffs to see Burntcoat Head Park, home to the highest tides in the world!

Welcome to Raven’s Rest Retreat Farm Tour

Our farm tour is for animal lovers and nature enthusiasts, looking for a transformational experience that is guaranteed to improve well-being and happiness. Book your tour today and create lasting memories with our beloved animals!

What to expect:

Highlander Cows

Get up close and personal with these majestic creatures. Learn about their history, care, and unique personalities.

Alpacas

Meet our fluffy alpacas and discover their fascinating behaviors and the luxurious fiber they produce.

Chickens

Visit our lively chicken coop and see how these feathered friends contribute to farm life. You might even collect a fresh egg or two!

Branigan the Irish Wolfhound

Spend some time with Branigan (Gaelic for ‘Little Raven’), our affectionate and playful Irish Wolfhound, who loves making new friends.

Book an appointment.

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Booking

The space we now call home was imagined, found, and bought in the three short months from December 2020 to February 2021. Being February 2021, we only had the chance to see our new home through screens.

We took a leap of faith that our eyes would not deceive us—trusting what we knew in our bones. It would only be three more months before we crossed four provinces to come home to roost in April 2021 to find out if we were right.

Never having been much for fence-sitting, after Jim suggested Nova Scotia and we thought,
Yup, this feels right! Our home was listed two months later and sold just as quickly as we’d decided to go for it.

Restful & Refreshing

The moment we met the soil, our agricultural roots resurfaced. We made hay when the sun was shining. No time was wasted getting the property tidied up, and our first cabin booking was in June 2021. Additional cabins were built in Spring 2022, and a fully accessible cottage was added in the Summer of 2024. The steady growth of bookings has continued as we got to work on the side of business and brand.

Companion animals trotted into our lives once more: chickens, Highlander cows, alpacas, and even an Irish Wolfhound graze and grow alongside our woodland friends. The property is growing with purposeful additions that will maintain the balance of privacy, serenity, and harmony—the physical space and the vibe: equal parts restful and refreshing.