Lost Field Farm, once known as Bullock Lake Farm, is one of our favourite corners of Salt Spring Island: long grass, low light, and room to gather.
Lost Field Farm is a Salt Spring Island flower farm and wedding venue, formerly Bullock Lake Farm. You can get married here, on meadows, in the barn, or beside the lake, with garden-grown florals raised on the same land. Our photographers return to it season after season.
Lost Field Farm is a 24-acre working flower farm and wedding venue on Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, formerly known as Bullock Lake Farm. We love it for its field-and-forest setting, its garden-grown florals, and the quiet, unhurried way a day unfolds there. Our photographers have shot at the farm for years, and our planners would happily design a wedding on its meadows.
Why we keep coming back to this farm
There is a particular light at Lost Field Farm in the late afternoon, when it moves low across the pasture and catches the long grass. Sitting at the end of a quiet road, the property holds organic gardens, a lakefront, rolling pasture, woodland, and a hundred-year-old orchard, all within a short walk. For a photographer, that range of texture in one place is rare. Our team works in digital photography, 35mm film, and hand-poured wet-plate tintype, and this is the kind of land that rewards all three: the barn's weathered board, the flower field in full colour, the soft edge of the beech meadow at dusk.
What was Lost Field Farm formerly called?
Lost Field Farm was formerly known as Bullock Lake Farm, named for the English settler Harry Bullock, who by the end of the 19th century had cleared over 300 acres around the lake. At its peak the farm had the island's first creamery, the island's first car, and a grass tennis court. Island legend has it that Bullock threw lavish parties with formal dress codes, and reportedly kept a collection of white gloves on hand for any lady who arrived bare-handed. It is a fitting bit of history for a place that still knows how to host a celebration, and it sits, as the farm openly honours, on the unceded territory of Hul'qumi'num and SENĆOŦEN speaking peoples.
A Salt Spring Island farm run by the people who grow its flowers
Molly and Zack, partners in work and life, run Lost Field Farm as a genuine Salt Spring Island farm: they grow the flowers, host the weddings, and teach seasonal workshops in floral design and gardening. The on-farm floral practice, Lost Field Studio, brings a modern, garden-style hand to the arranging, from personal flowers to larger installations, all grown and designed on site. As a Salt Spring Island wedding florist and planning collective ourselves, we recognise the difference that on-the-land growing makes: the flowers match the season and the setting because they came from the same soil.
The farm holds five distinct wedding spaces across its fields and forest: the barn, the tent, lake meadow, beech meadow, and the flower field.
Lost Field Farm
Can you get married at Lost Field Farm?
Yes. Lost Field Farm hosts a small number of full-service wedding weekends each season, from May through October, for up to 140 guests, welcoming couples from Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, and beyond. There are options for every scale: intimate elopements for up to eight guests, ceremony-and-dinner gatherings for up to thirty, and larger hosted or curated weekends with planning, florals, and staffing built in. Every wedding hosted there also helps send a local child to farm camp, and the farm donates one percent of sales to the Stqeeye' Learning Society, supporting the return of Quw'utsun Elders to Xwaaqw'um. That kind of rootedness is exactly the sort of place we love to work.
We would love to plan a wedding here
For couples who bring their own planner, the farm offers a weekend venue package, and our planners would gladly step into that role. We are islanders serving islanders, and a day at Lost Field Farm plays to everything our collective does best: one team of planners, photographers, and filmmakers designing and documenting the whole weekend together. If you are weighing venues, it sits comfortably alongside the other Gulf Island properties we adore, from Ruckle Farm to the wider list in our Salt Spring Island weddings guide. When you are ready to talk through a date, get in touch and we will help you shape it.
What was Lost Field Farm called before? +
Lost Field Farm was formerly known as Bullock Lake Farm, named for English settler Harry Bullock, who cleared over 300 acres around the lake by the end of the 19th century. It sits on the unceded territory of Hul'qumi'num and SENĆOŦEN speaking peoples.
How many guests can Lost Field Farm host for a wedding? +
The farm hosts weddings for up to 140 guests during its May-to-October season, with smaller options including elopements for up to eight guests and ceremony-and-dinner gatherings for up to thirty.
Does Lost Field Farm grow its own wedding flowers? +
Yes. The farm's in-house floral practice, Lost Field Studio, grows and designs modern, garden-style florals on site, from personal flowers to larger installations.
Can Folklore plan a wedding at Lost Field Farm? +
Yes. Lost Field Farm offers a weekend venue package for couples with their own planner, and our team of planners would love to design and document a wedding there.
