A visit to Valentine Farm gives you all the choices of a farmer’s market, but it’s in a beautiful country setting and is only a few minutes from downtown Summerland in the Okanagan valley. Read more…
Stuart Little Eats Here
Spring has sprung and with it visions of harvesting tomatoes, kale, basil – Lady Bountiful carrying wicker baskets laden with homegrown vegetables. A few fresh flowers thrown in for good measure. Read more…
Seeds Glorious Seeds
I was not born into vegetable gardening. My grandparents had a yard but whereas the neighbours were using a lawnmower to cut their lawn, my grandmother was using a scythe to cut hers – if you consider that overgrown, scrubby patch of earth a lawn. The only living thing she actually planted was gladiolus. Sad to say, this horticultural heritage was passed on to my mother and, by association, to me. Read more…
Valentine Farm – still farm-fresh in November
November 3 ~ Driving out Dale Meadows Road, you can be forgiven for not noticing the small sign on the corner of Gould Avenue. You are probably more concerned it is almost 4:15 and the dump might be closed.
Summerland Sweets
Summerland Sweets is a local success story. One of the original food processors in the valley, the company is still today, a family owned business run by the descendants of the original founder, Ted Atkinson.
Artisans abound and local culture expresses itself
There’s no shortage of interesting stuff to buy in the Okanagan and foodies lust for our locally grown products. Firecracker Jacks is one such product, and this week, we tell you why. article/photograph by Stephanie Seaton