The People Behind the Food
Williams Lake, bc
Puddle Produce Farm
Puddle Produce Farm is the 1.5 acre market garden behind this online farm store. We've been growing 100% natural and low-till vegetables since 2013, and are based on a 13 acre bench above the Fraser river, in Soda Creek. We grow up to 50 varieties of vegetables as well as apples and plums, for farmers' market, online, and bulk sales.
Lillooet, BC
Golden Cariboo Honey
Golden Cariboo Honey has been based out of Lillooet since 1952, when John Chandler and his wife Peggy came to Canada from England. Now, the apiary is managed by their great-grandson, Mischa Chandler! An increasingly rare sight in today's farming world.
A raw and unpasteurized honey, Mischa focuses his efforts on the health of his hives, raising his own queens and cultivating his own alfalfa and clover. It's a pretty neat story, check them out!
Williams lake, bc
Onward Ranch
Onward Ranch, one of our own and an amazing direct to consumer ranch here in the Cariboo. There's a big difference between grass-fed and 100% grass-fed. This means that cow has never been fed an unnatural, unhealthy diet of grain, even at the end. You'll see the difference. Read their story here.
lillooet, bc
Seed To Culture
Seed to Culture is also based in Lillooet, BC. What I love about their business is that not only do they create live (ie: not canned) fermented products, but they also grow the veggies that go into those jars: they are a certified organic business and market garden. How cool is that?!
beaver valley. BC
Birch Bark Bakery
Birch Bark Bakery is a sourdough micro-bakery based out of Beaver Valley in the Cariboo, and owned/operated by Shannon O'Donnovan. Here's an amazing fact about Shannon: she sources 2 varieties of grain from a local grower right in Beaver Valley, and mills it herself to use in her baking. It's not very often you find a local grain grower OR a baker willing to mill it themselves! Very cool.
prince george, bc
Hope Farm Organics
Andrew grew up in rural Kansas and learned the skills needed on a small family farm, then later attended Kansas State University where he attained a BSc. in Agriculture and conservation. After university Andrew moved to Alaska to live out a dream of being in the rugged north and living in the forest. Later while fly fishing in Alaska, Andrew met Janie and the two moved to Prince George where they started to work on building Hope Farm.
They specialize in gourmet San Marzano Tomatoes, Strawberries, Haskap berries, Saskatoon berries, sweet cherries and sour cherries, apples and plums.
quesnel, bc
Titra Farms
Tim's family immigrated to Canada from Switzerland in 1990. They built Fox Dairy Farm just south of Quensel, then Tim went off to play professional hockey for 10 years before becoming a poultry farmer! His laying hens are free run and have access to the outdoors when weather permits.
