Reviews of Prairie Gardens (Gardener)

Ponds Aqualine

We visited Prairie Gardens twice in the past couple of weeks, and are very impressed with the quality and selection of their plant material. I had a hard time resisting the basket of tumbler tomatoes that were already ripening on the vine! It was busy, but no insane line-ups to contend with, and the staff are super-helpful. If they dont have what you want, they will try and find it for you. For all you gardeners searching for quality plant materials , Prairie Gardens is a Must-Visit garden centre. Its worth the drive to Bon Accord.

Clara Palmer

What a fantastic place! Staff are kind, friendly and definitely make the day! So much to do! Train ride, mazes, great food, and so many other fun activities for the whole family. Thank you to Prairie Gardens, we'll be back!

Jacqueline Green

We really enjoyed our visit! I was reluctant because of the 40 minute drive, and it was so worth it! Jan gave us a great tour as we chose our produce. Who knew that Alberta has its own vegetable? Also that you can eat so many things including lambsquarter! I've been twice, once prepandemic and one post. The first time there was more to do and yet I enjoyed the second time just as much.

Christina Casullo

The Prairie Gardens are a must-see! They have two sunflower mazes, plus a corn maze and rows upon rows of u-pick pumpkins and veggies. Of course, due to the restrictions imposed by the government due to covid, many of the attractions were closed off - including the kids area, petting zoo and some of the on-site attractions. Nonetheless, they are doing the best they can given the circumstances and were super accommodating for a few moms visiting with their babies in tow! For that, they are worthy of the five star review. I can only speak for myself when I say I’ll be returning to the farm once the covid restrictions have lifted.

Poonam Saini

Good place in summer for picnic for a day out. Pet zoo. My kids a lots of fun. If you are looking to make or have fairy garden they have everything.

Ije D

Excellent place for families with kids. Lots of gun activities to do and close to the city too - 20mins from Edmonton

Jonathan Henderson

Beautiful place! We've been bringing our kids here since they were old enough to walk and it's a great time every year! There's usually something new or different every year. You can tell the owners care about making a great experience, I can't wait to see it another year. Didn't get a chance to see the big Maize Maze this year but I'm sure it would have been great See you next year!!! ????????????????

Lena Bou

So much fun! We went closer to the end of the season but we still got to see the animals, the sunflower and corn fields and pick some peas. The people working there were super friendly. This would be a great place to take your family or even a cute date idea. So many cute photo opportunities!

Off Grid Homestead

I responded to an add selling cabbage. I was asked to call a phone number to place my order. I called the number, left my name, the numbers of lbs I wanted, and gave the pick up date and time, which I was told worked great (I gave 5 days notice). I showed up today to pick up my order as I was passing by on my Way to teach in Edmonton. When I arrived, I was told I was in the right place and they would check for my order after helping another group. The staff helped them and then began to help another group. She motioned that she would again help me after the next group. I indicated that I had somewhere to be and I would prefer not to wait. So, the staff went off to look for my order. I was brought out a different type of cabbage than I had ordered and I explained that I had ordered the specific cabbage that I wanted. The staff disappeared again (I waited 15 minutes) and can't back to tell me that the other cabbage was fine for what I was doing and that they could go harvest the cabbage while I waited. I explained that I needed the type of cabbage that I had ordered and that I had called a days ahead of time because I would be passing by at a certain time on my way to work. Her response was oh okay. No "I'm sorry we didn't have your order ready" no "I'm sorry we didn't call you to let you know that we couldn't fill your order and so you wouldn't have to drive 30 min out of your way". Unfortunately, I can't recommend the service. Even a very basic apology would have changed my opinion in that moment.

Simone Berube

This place is amazing! Went with the family, lots of corn mazes, petting zoo and more! Spent 3 hours here and it still wasn't enough time to do everything! Will be going back! They also have a fresh veggies market with zucchini, yellow beans, beet leaves, cucumbers, potatoes and more!

Sabrina Gretzki

Went for farm days. Not bad considering it was free. Corn maze and sunflower mazes were good. Benny's bread was there selling their baked goods. The bread was good except they need to work on their customer service. I was standing there for a long time and there were no other customers and they were ignoring me and didn't seem like they wanted my business.

Scott Gabert

What a waste of $20. This place is so worn down and dirty. Zero maintenance. The mazes are extra boring and should be called ‘path thru poor crops’. Even my 5yr old didn’t want to go thru the 3rd one because it was ‘too boring’. I felt bad for the few animals that have to live here

Kimly S

Great family fun!

Marie Moses

I am annoyed at the line up. I asked if I needed to upgrade my admission ticket for any reason. Told it wasn’t necessary. Walk right in. Go to the petting animal area. Surprise, can’t get in! I need to upgrade my admission. I get to wait in line again. Angry…

Dan Rondeau

Very nice farm, very nice property and the people that work here for the most part are great. But I do not feel like this is good value for what you spend. On top of getting in for $20 a person, the food and drinks are expensive, and the pumpkin patch was also quite pricey. My wife and I bought two very small pumpkins and after the two $5 coupons we had, we still had to pay $6. We were told it was $1 per pound, but when we got home the pumpkins weighed 8lbs. They don't really show you what the weight is when they weigh so who knows if it was zeroed correctly, we just took their word for it. It left a bad taste in our mouths and I doubt we'll ever go back here.

J Fox

Great opportunity to get out and get some fresh air. Played everyone right out.

Mark Bennett

We just went for a cold picnic by the fire, and a play in the corn maze. It was freezing, but lots of fun too! We'll definitely be back. Save room or skip breakfast as the portions for the picnic were generous.

David Luong

Was great fun with the kids. I highly recommend the doing the guided tour first. Learning about how all the different vegetables grow was great. Super fun.

Kyla Hermary

For the city folk who want to experience rural life; this is a great little place. Our guide "Steven" was so awesome. Great with kids too! Baby animals to snuggle, bouncy critters to ride and a train tour around the farm is a great way to spend the day!

Stefan David

I felt very welcome and had a wonderful evening with our group.

Venessa Marie

Very kid friendly but not much activities for adults.

Graham Allen

Unique place to when in the area. I would advise calling in advance to make sure the farm is fully open, as every one was away doing strawberry picking when we were there.

Sameer Bhatt

Very nice family garden to visit

Natasha Stenzel-Bourbeau

What an amazing experience and customer service second to none! The selection is incredible and I have never experienced such variety. Everyone was so helpful, kind, well stocked, and when i mentioned that I was looking for watermelon seeds they quickly got me two different kinds of watermelon starters. We picked up our new four baby chicks and it is a bright spot in our families life these days. Prairie Gardens has my highest recommendation to any home gardener and they would have 10 stars if I could give them.

Laura Banu

Prairie Gardens is a wonderful family spot. They have been able to get creative in order to keep the gates open and have families safely enjoy their time onsite.

Emi A.

What a fun place for all ages! Lots for kids to see. My child didn't want to leave even after 3 hours.

Kate Ivankova

What an amazing place to visit! Definitely place to take kids out for a whole day.

Anastasia Atwood

We had a delicious picnic in August. While pretty much everything was closed, we got to enjoy the sunflower maze and pumpkin patch. Everyone was friendly and helpful. Thank you for a nice family outing!

Donald Heitzman

Super helpful and friendly. Great visit.

Neil Vandermeiden

We've done two private dinners here; one pizza party during bad weather, one five course during great weather. Both were no less than outstanding. Delicious and memorable. Fantastic setting, individual attention and accommodating and friendly staff. Gilbert's tomatoes are off the charts good. You won't go wrong here.

Amber Brown

First time for me. Made family fun day a success. Forgot gloves and thankfully they had a store that sold some! General store. Ice cream Food Fun for kids.

Tina G

One of your favourite corn mazes to go in Autumn. There are many great activities for small children. Dress warm if the day is chilly, as you will be outdoors most of the time.

Marian Saunderson

Excellent family experience. Grandsons really like seeing brand new bunnies

Kayla Parker

Went out today with the family & friends. Extremely disappointed. The place is terribly ran down, and there was no direction of where or what to do. We got to walk around a run down farm, and a train ride for $17 per adult. The four parks feel like they are falling apart. We did get an $8 pumpkin for free with the $5 voucher that comes with your ticket. ????????‍♀️ disappointed and won’t be going back.

ThisIsMartin _

We had a great time with the kids. This place has a bunch of stuff to do for everyone. They have hay rides, pumpkin/ vegetable picking, play grounds to climb on, different animals to see, etc. It's also well decorated and the staff are super nice!

Sean Szopa

Good little area outside the city for your little one. Good picture spot.

The Green Thumb Eh!

Awesome place to pick strawberries ???? ????????they were very friendly and helpful .u pick your the best !!

Magoo the Menace

Super friendly staff with great arrangement of fun little farm activities!

Nadia Obaid

Great new experience. Our little one enjoyed every single moment there, so did we. U-pick, train ride, gem mining and much more. All were AMAZING. I want to special thank the young lady who was with us during picking up the veggies❤️

Stephen C

Great place to bring kids, the staff were all passionate about the facility and or your if the garden was the highlight.

Goddess Wolfe

Awesome. My son and his class had an amazing well organized fun.

Niranjan Paudel

Nice place to visit for family and kids.

Willis Guy (Mr.Superior)

Great, fun, friendly place if you're looking for a few hours to spend with your Children/Grandchildren and while still getting some exercise and fresh air.

Nooran Ostadeian

What a place! I call it a mini heaven.

Johanna Silver

Always love our visits here! So much to see and do and the staff are fantastic!

J P.

We visited the farm in mid October so our expectations weren't high. Yet we were still kinda disappointed. I think perhaps the admission should be adjusted in later year as you don't get the same experience you would in summer. About the food, the pumpkin muffin was inedible. It was super dry, dense and bland. Maybe it was a bad batch... I did like the mango passion fruit geleto, it was very tasty.

Ewa Nowicka

Great family time , friendly staff, good selection of food and activities.Would defentely recommend to family and friends.????

Tracey Volk

Loved a “Under the Stars” evening at Prairie Gardens I went to last night which included “Farm to Fork’ dinner, bonfires & U of A astronomy students with telescopes lot see the stars . There as lecture on fantastic black holes and where to find them. The dinner was amazingly delicious. Everything was wonderful! Make and take Herb rub was a nice! touch. I would just like to add how wonderful the staff was. They took great care and made the evening fun. It was simply magical.

Miriam Stuart

Great family fun!

Greg Wilson

Huge selection and really great service, also good prices

Michael Leewes

This place was a pleasant surprise, didn't realize the Praire Gardens had as much to offer as it does! Real country experience, kinda like a fair but without the crazy rides. Down to earth fun for the whole family! A little sprucing up of the buildings and washrooms would be ideal in the future as one mention. If you love supporting your local community go spend some money here!

tacotime4321

Very friendly and helpful staff. All of there plants look amazing

Demi MacIntosh

We love coming here :) We have brought our kids for 4 years now and we always look forward to it. All the people we met who work here were very friendly and fun to be around. The train conductor was hilarious and I saw him drive the train ride countless times and he never lost his upbeat happy attitude. The farm is so nice to walk around, lots of family vibes, you can tell they put a lot of thought into everything that is offered there. The little places to buy things are so nice, we always stop to stock up on fudge. The animals are very cute and you can tell they are well loved as they don’t hesitate to come over for a head scratch lol the goats tried to taste my sons mitten which he thought was hilarious ????. There is a lot to do and you could spend hours here, thank you to everyone on the farm for providing such a fun experience!!

Theresa Geldart

Love coming here every year! It has become one of our regular annual Halloween adventures. Great for kids

Mharian Requiez

Thank you to the team who pull this all together to create an awesome experience for the whole family! Our kids had so much fun! Trains, pumpkin harvest, petting zoo, and more!! Worth the visit!

Marykate Makey

Staff was so helpful and friendly. There’s so much to do and all of us had a blast. Geared more towards smaller kids,but enough to keep adults entertained and having a good time. Little dress up room, haunted house, petting farm, little outdoor games, and the strawberry picking was good as well

Kassy Trahan

Amazing experience, fun for the whole family.

James West

Expensive to get in and then once you're everything costs extra inside. Portapotty are over flowing. No hand sanitizer anywhere around them.

Anna Fuezery

First-time CSA participant. Really enjoying all of the veggies and fruits, especially the heirloom tomatoes. Large variety and high quality veggies every week. The farm had some issues initially with having products ready for pick-up, but they have all been sorted out now and the process is straightforward and smooth. Just purchased a winter CSA share since enjoying the summer one so much. Highly recommend to others.

Żaneta Backiel

We liked it much more two years ago. for animal tour is separate ticket now. huge "jumbo" hot dog 7$ (kids hot dog, and just feve others choices like pie or bread) some stafe grumpy, some stafe super nice and helpfule.. maybe is better on weekend

Rosanne McIntyre

My family did the Prairie Gardens picnic, farm tour and gem mining. Wow! We had a fantastic day!! The picnic lunch was phenomenal! European meats, cheese, very classy and so much food nobody could finish. I can't express how delicious and exquisite the lunch was! My picky kids loved it, too. The staff was so absolutely accommodating and first class professional. Out tour was outstanding and the fellow in gem mining made it so fun. I went expecting ok and got absolutely amazing!! Do book this for the summer. I was so impressed by the experience.

Linda J

We went on Saturday and it was a terrible experience. We arrived about a 1/2 hr after opening and besides the cheerful person that took our 75$ entrance fee that was the only help we had. It was quite cold on Saturday, so we decided to make the best of the visit and were hoping for at least a train ride. We inquired from a staff member when it would start, she said they were short staffed and after she did the puppet show then maybe she could get it going?? We proceeded to spend some time playing with the kids then went and sat at the train station with multiple other families when 2 staff members walked by and didn't stop to say anything or offer to go get the keys or find someone to drive. Finally after waiting!!! we got off and headed to some of the greenhouses to see what was there? Never did find the puppet show, lady in gift shop said that there was face painting, popcorn and hot chocolate next door.Face painting didn't start til 1200 and there was no popcorn or hot chocolate either, didn't see a person in there. We were never greeted anywhere we went. We were sad to see ALL the water for the petting zoo animals was frozen over as well. Nothing sadder then a chicken pecking at a frozen water bucket! Charging 15$ for a 3 yr old and 19$ for adults is too much for what is offered. Feeling very disappointed and ripped off.

Julie Marie

We were so disappointed with our visit today. I remember just loving coming here two years ago and hoping for a similar experience. We also visited last year, but knew the major COVID restrictions would change things. However, this year it felt like there was even less to do than 2020. The prices have increased, you have to pay extra to even see the animals up close, the buildings are so run down now they're losing their charm and you can't even go inside and explore or play in any of them. There were no staff around to help us that we couldn't even pay for the first hour, couldn't pay for our ice cream until we were half way through eating it, and I gave up on buying vegetables because there was no one around to pay for them! The train ride was adorable and there are cute aspects to it, but I sadly will be taking it off of my recurring summer to do lists for the future.

Roland Valois

Super fun for all ages they have farm animals, trian rides and mini corn maze for the kiddos

Elizabeth Tan

It was lovely! The flowers they're selling are beautiful and we had a go at the gem mine. You can sift through the soil to get pretty stones. Perfect for a 5 year old. The lady was also very informative about which gems my eldest was sifting out so we learned a lot. It's a pity it isn't fully open because of covid. You can book appointments through their website for the petting zoo.

None Yourbusiness

60 dollars to take my family here no parking finally get in the pumpkins are tiny, the corn maze is 2 ft tall hard to get lost for the peice they charge maybe they could afford to water things so it grows.

Eibhlin nee

This is our second year visiting the pumpkin patch and Halloween festival and it gets better every time. This year we had pumpkin curry and it was the most delicious dish I've had in along time, and my one year old loved it too x Fabulous family place, I would highly recommend this.

Abby Laschuk

I had a terrible experience here. Parking is terrible, we were directed over to the overflow parking, there was no shuttle or way to get over to the main area. I was told to just wait around for half an hour and drive over and see if there was parking available. Luckily we found some parking closer. The whole area is just very confusing. We couldn't find the admission, or really anything for that matter, very confusing layout. Lines for everything were extremely long, probably 45min for the cafe. Finally got to the main maze area, the sunflower maze was tiny. The corn maze, or what we could find, was also tiny. The corn was dead, you could see through everything so it was not much of a maze. They had 3 port a potties, 2 of which I went in, were so full I couldn't even sit down if I wanted to. Just overall bad experience, spent $60 on tickets for basically nothing, would definitely not recommend.

Andrey K

Great place overall. My only complaint - pumpkins are ridiculously expensive. We paid $48 for 3 medium sized and 3 palm sized onces, so be ware of that. Other than that - we had great times!

Calli Humphries

We go here every year for their sunflower and corn maze. This year we went to purchase new plants and trees for our garden. Amazing customer service, very friendly and knowledgeable. Laurel was amazing she answered every question I had and helped me pick out the perfect orchard package. I cannot wait until they can open fully again and we can enjoy all the farm has to offer!