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Thompson-Okanagan pot growers optimistic about this year’s outdoor harvest
B.C.’s outdoor cannabis growing season is reaping the rewards of our amazing, sunny autumn. Temperatures…
Okanagan apple growers seek help after years of dismal returns
Okanagan apple growers protested current apple economics at last weekend's Kelowna Farmers Market. Growers offered…
Early spring both good and bad for local farmers
OKANAGAN – The early heat felt across the Okanagan this year has local farmers springing into action. Producers of vegetables, fruit, hay and alfalfa crops say the warm weather came at least two weeks early this year, meaning they can plant earlier, expect higher yields and very likely harvest earlier as well. At the Kelowna...
Kelowna coalition to tackle growing feral cat problem
ESTIMATED 13,000 FERAL CATS IN THE OKANAGAN KELOWNA – Five years after struggling to get control over a wild rabbit problem, Kelowna now faces a population explosion of another feral species. “There’s definitely a feral cat problem in Kelowna,” says Cheryll Gillespie, an animal welfare advocate and one of the founders of a new group...