Shuswap Farmstand Tour launches with interactive map to help support local farmers

The Shuswap boasts much than 600 farms and while it’s intolerable to sojourn them all, a collaboration betwixt Shuswap Tourism and nan Central Shuswap Regional District has attempted to make it easier to support section farmers.

The Shuswap Farmstand Tour helps residents and visitors find section eggs, produce, nutrient and much done an interactive map.

“We noticed that done immoderate of these areas, we had a ample cluster of each these really beautiful farmstands and we wanted to item what was people happening successful our community,” said Morgen Matheson, Shuswap Tourism manager.

The task is successful its infancy and presently has highlighted 8 farmstands connected nan Shuswap Grown website.

“It’s important for our section farming community,” Matheson said.

“It’s important to item these passionate individuals that do truthful overmuch activity for us, that put truthful overmuch activity into bringing nutrient from their workplace to our table.”

One of nan featured stands is Harvest successful nan Valley Acres connected Salmon River Road, which is stocked year-round.

“It’s fundamentally a homegrown workplace and we do vegetables, we do eggs, we do lamb trim and wrapped and beef trim and wrapped,” Esther Webster of Harvest successful nan Valley Acres said.

“But nan large benignant of point that we do present is nan muffins and my baking.”

Then from nan farm, nan circuit takes drivers on Yankee Flats Road to Bee Yours.

“We started six years agone here, I travel from a family of beekeepers successful Argentina,” said María Daniela Dambros of Bee Yours.

“We started pinch 300 beehives and now we are adjacent to 900 beehives.”

Along nan trail, location are signs to people charismatic stops that characteristic a QR codification that takes you to a website wherever you tin study each astir nan workplace and nan group who tally it.

The Shuswap Farmstand Trail is now afloat stocked and fresh to service up locally originated nutrient products.