During Earth month we heard that many of you are supporting local food to be more climate conscious. Whether that is growing and preserving your own food, getting eggs from your neighbour, buying meat from your local rancher or shopping at a farmers’ market.
You shared so many great local producers to keep your shopping local, check out the list below!
1. Local Food Producers
- Old Blue Truck Farm, an Invermere market garden providing weekly produce boxes.
- Valley Fold Farm provides local eggs in Rossland.
- Local Salmo farms, Salix and Sedge Farm, Clutch Farm and Forrest Farm.
- Bee Green Plants, Root and Vine Acres, Cutter Ranch, and the Slocan Saturday Market in the Slocan Valley.
- Happy Hills Farm and their collective of more than 30 small BC farms such as The Rooted Table Collective and Kootenay Natural Meats.
- Confluence Farm a regenerative Low-Till farm
- Terra Firma Farms
- Local farms in Revelstoke area: Revelstoke Farm and Craft Market, First Light Farm, Bird Tree Urban Farm, Stoke The Fire and Red Lion Organic Farm.
- Cookville Community Farm, in Erikson
- Meat Matters Butchery in Kimberley
- McCormack Farm, in the Burton
- Earthy Organics, in Fruitvale
- Morchella Market, in Cranbrook
- Kootenay Co-op, in Nelson
- The Local Plate, in Kimberley
- Wood Goods, in Revelstoke
- Central Kootenay Farm and Food Directory is your guide to farms, food, producers, markets and seasonal eating in the Central Kootenay’s.
Find more recourses to buy local food at Columbia Valley Food and Farm
2. Locally Made Sustainable Products
- Busy Bree’s Wax Wraps available throughout the Kootenays
- RollingMoss in Nakusp
- Mountain Goodness Natural Foods for natural cleaners
3. Check out your local bike shop and ask for advice on how to get set up for bike commuting.
4. When getting supplies for your latest project, try your local thrift shop first.
5. Choose curbside or in-store pickup instead of shipping.
6. Think outside the box when you are wrapping gifts.
See someone missing? Email us at communications@ourtrust.org so we can add them to the list.