Agriculture
Okanagan apple industry expecting shortage of pickers
With fewer workers arriving through the seasonal agricultural worker program, the apple industry is bracing…
Port Alberni family honoured for 100 years of farming
A Port Alberni family is being honoured after working on their farm for four generations.…
Spring flooding forced this Kelowna woman to get creative with her Curly Frog Farm
When Brenda Dureault bought a 26-acre hayfield from her father 20 years ago it was…
‘Desperate for workers’: Okanagan and Creston cherry and apple farms need help
Okanagan and Creston cherry and apple farms are abandoning crops due to a lack of…
Matriarch of West Kelowna farm family dies at 100
The matriarch of the Paynter's Fruit Market family in West Kelowna has died at the…
Summerland turns portion of municipal campground into temporary agricultural worker accommodation
A portion of Summerland’s Peach Orchard Municipal Campground will be converted into accommodations for seasonal…
It looks like another bad year for Kamloops, Okanagan peaches, apricots
It's blossom time for early budding fruits like peaches, nectarines and apricots but gardeners from…
Federal COVID-19 aid for agriculture ‘profoundly underwhelming’: B.C. fruit growers
The future of a safe, secure food supply is at risk, members B.C. Fruit Growers’…
Kelowna Farmers’ Market weathers negative public feedback with physical distancing protocols
The Kelowna Farmers' and Crafters' Market opened two weeks ago outside the Parkinson Recreation Centre…
Grapes tainted by smoke is real for Okanagan wineries but a solution offers hope
The question comes up for local wineries during every bad wildfire season but few winemakers…
Okanagan apple growers being hit hard by financial losses
Okanagan apple farmers are suffering significant financial hardship with higher costs and lower returns, according…
B.C. beekeepers and cranberry farmers get a boost
Beekeepers looking for new ways to produce more honey and cranberry producers seeking more pollinators…
‘My whole life has been in apples:’ Davison Orchards from humble beginning to busy tourist spot
VERNON – Dressed in a baggy plaid shirt, with jeans that are at least one…
Okanagan Spirits blazed a trail for craft distilleries, but the fight isn’t over yet
KELOWNA – Seventeen years ago, there was no such thing as a craft spirits distillery.…
Fruit growers filing hundreds of insurance claims as apricot, cherry crops hammered by weather
KELOWNA – The last two fruit growing seasons were particularly hard on apple growers, forcing…