If you are reading this page, we are feeling sad.
If it’s because you are wondering if we might be bears who run a website, we are not. We are actual human beings who love to hunt, fish, and adventure. We just think bears are awesome and worth emulating in many ways and are here to help you find your inner bear.
So, for legal stuff, we are an affiliate sales site. We create articles and content to help you get more from your outdoor adventures. In those articles, we make gear recommendations and also have products listed in our Bear Farm Outdoors store. We offer these through our affiliate relationship with The Sportsman’s Guide, one of the nation’s leading outdoor retailers. We chose The Sportsman’s Guide because once upon a time, when we were young, developing outdoor writers, we met Gary Olin, founder of The Sportsman’s Guide. He was a gracious man, honest about his business model, and he made an impression that has lasted a lifetime. We have been buying gear from them since.
As we grow, we will develop other relationships such as this. You will never pay more for the gear you order through Bear Farm Outoors and will have the benefit of having select equipment curated for the adventures we write about. If you have any questions about our specific business model, please reach out at bear@thebearfarm.com.
More About Bears
What’s true is that we really love bears and support the efforts to maintain wild bear habitats worldwide and prevent bear poaching and entrapped farming, which is really cruel.
In their native habitat, bears are omnivores and eat everything from berries to grubs and fish to caribou. Sometimes, even people. These are wild bears. Love them and respect them. Don’t run up and offer one a hug.
If you follow our lead and get out in the wilderness, here are some dos and don’ts to help you with possible bear interactions:
Do
- Carry noise makers when you are hiking in Bear Country. The noise will alert them and keep most bears away.
- Read up on bear behavior so you know what to do calmly if you do encounter a bear.
- Consider supporting a rescue or sanctuary that cares for bears.
- Write Amazon and tell them to stop selling products made from bears, such as cooking oil. The practices to harvest this are incredibly cruel, and most of this product comes from Asia and Russia.
- Buy a Bear Farm Outdoors hat or T-Shirt. They are very cool and make great gifts. Bears and people will think you are cool. What better way to share a bear?
- Share The Bear Farm Outdoors with your friends. Who doesn’t love bears?
Don’t
- Come to the Northwest looking for The Bear Farm. You will not find it and might get eaten by a bear.
- Fight an Alaskan brown bear for a fish. You will lose and probably also get eaten.
- Feed bears in parks or areas with bear/human conflict, such as Lake Tahoe. This teaches them to eat human food but without any manners. You become food who is offering them food.
Thanks for sharing our bear journey. May the bear be with you!