Waishkey Bay Farm

Bay Mills Community College’s Waishkey Bay Farm includes 280 acres being developed as an extension, teaching, research, and incubator facility focusing on sustainable agriculture and strengthening the local food system in ways that are consistent with traditional Anishinaabek values. Current operations include season extension crops with two hoop houses and a greenhouse, a community garden, pasture-based chicken production, an apiary, a small apple orchard, industrial hemp variety trials, cultivated blueberries, and grass-based beef production. Waishkey Bay Farm has been verified through the Michigan Agricultural Environmental Assurance Program (MAEAP) since 2013. 

 

Contact Information

Physical address: 10135 W Mills Road, Brimley, MI 49715 (location only, no mail service)

Mailing address: 12214 W Lakeshore Drive, Brimley, MI 49715

Hours:  M-F 8 am – 2 pm; call ahead as we often have off-farm errands

Gitigaan Hall Phone:  (906) 248-1102

 

Farm Staff

 

Kat Jacques wearing a yellow hoodie, a green beanie, and glasses with one of Waishkey Bay Farm's black cows in the photo chewing some hay.
Kat Jacques - Waishkey Bay Farm Manager

Phone: 906-322-1864
Email: [email protected]

 

Dennis Carrick in jeans and a hoodie holding a rabbit and a snare. There is a pair of wire cutters tucked under arm, sunglasses on top of his head, and snow on the ground with trees behind him.
Dennis Carrick - Farm & Food Sovereignty Technician

Email: [email protected]

 

Dave Corey wearing a patterned long-sleeve shirt, a hat with sunglasses tucked on the brim, standing in frone of an orange tractor with green grass in the background, next to the Waishkey Bay Farm offices.
Dave Corey - Livestock Educator

Email: [email protected]

 

Amy McCoy is in a kayakon a body of water with a life vest on
Aamookwe Amy McCoy - Anishinaabe Science & Food Sovereignty Educator

Email: [email protected]

 

Tori Smith wearing a tye-dye t-shirt, long beaded earrings, holding a white baby chick.
Tori Smith - Farm Technician
Email: [email protected] 

 

Apiary/Beekeeping Videos (shared with permission of Bee Wise Farms)

Beekeeping Modules

2024 Beginning Beekeeping

 

Beef Herd-Share

Overview

Agreement Form

 

Community Gitagaan (Garden)

Community Gitigaan