Haliburton Community Organic Farm is a publicly-owned farm within the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR). The farm was saved from development by a group of concerned citizens and the District of Saanich, who purchased the land.  The Farm is now being developed as a community and educational organic farm.

The farm is 4.09 ha (approximately 9.3 acres), and is located on the south side of Haliburton Road (741 Haliburton Road) in Cordova Bay, which is a neighbourhood in Saanich, BC.

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The farm was previously zoned P-2 (Utility Zone) and has been rezoned to a new Rural Demonstration  Farm  Zone. It contains an underground water reservoir and a single-family dwelling on the west part of the site, a forested area on the southern part, and a fruit orchard on the north part. It has a sunny southern exposure and the soil is designated class 3, on a scale of 1 (the best) to 7 (the worst).

Fifty years ago, Haliburton, or Four Winds Farm as it was then called, supplied fruit and vegetables to the neighbourhood and provided jobs for a family. There was no active farming on the land in over 30 years, yet the fruit trees continued to produce bountiful amounts of cherries, pears and plums. Also, the farm had been used to graze sheep during the spring & summer, which was helpful in keeping invasive species, such as broom and Himalayan blackberry, from taking over the property.