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CedarCreek wins Canadian Winery of the Year award
CedarCreek Estate Winery was named the Canadian Winery of the Year for the third time…
Kelowna’s One Big Table closes for the last time
Kelowna’s first community-funded grocery store and a champion of the local food movement will close…
Vegan restaurant bringing new life and new flavours to a notorious Kelowna street
Kelowna’s Leon Avenue hasn’t recently been an area where entrepreneurs want to invest with concerns…
How Okanagan fruit trees are weathering dramatic shifts in temperatures
With temperatures swinging from arctic to balmy and then back to chilly again, it’s only…
Okanagan apple growers being hit hard by financial losses
Okanagan apple farmers are suffering significant financial hardship with higher costs and lower returns, according…
Okanagan apple industry going through ‘necessary reset,’ says industry member
Apple farming may not be making anyone rich right now but from the perspective of…
Strategy to protect wine grapes from smoke-taint developed by UBC Okanagan researchers
A common agricultural spray may be the key to preventing smoky flavour permeating wine grapes.…
Okanagan farmers brace for losses as workforce banned from Canada amid COVID-19 concerns
The Okanagan's farmers long relied upon workers from other countries to care to bring crops…
For how much and how long? Okanagan restaurateurs struggle to make sense of what’s next
Mark Filatow is one of the most highly lauded chefs in the Okanagan, known to…
West Kelowna commuters seeing old orchard replaced by new wine project
The rolling hillsides of West Kelowna are bursting with new life as vineyards take root…
Kelowna cookbook author sees Random House deal come to fruition, and it’s delicious
Get Jennifer Schell talking about food and it’s a bit like opening a secret door…
Get a signed copy of The B.C. Wine Lover’s Cookbook
Jennifer Schell’s “unique portrait” of B.C.’s winemakers, The B.C. Wine Lover's Cookbook, has been out…
Backyard cannabis gardener in Peachland surprised to find police at her front door
Viola Gabanowicz has lived a quiet life in Peachland for 20 years. So one day…
RCMP make significant illicit cannabis haul following raid of licensed Langley grow op
A massive amount of cannabis, packaged and still in plant form, was seized by RCMP…
Kelowna gets research and development facility dedicated to advancing cannabis cultivation
Kelowna is now home to North America’s first research and development facility dedicated to advancing…