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.