The Gill Family

Lake Country, BC
BC Tree Fruit Grower


Many farmers hope that their children will take over farm some day. For the Gills of Lake Country, BC – that dream is coming true. They’ve been growing ...
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Karnail Singh Sidhu

Okanagan Valley, BC
BC Wine Maker


Karnail Singh Sidhu runs the family-owned Kalala Organic Estate Winery with his wife Narinder in the beautiful Okanagan Valley. He’s developed an impressive ...
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Eggstream Farm

Chilliwack, BC
BC Poultry Farmer


Darren and Jen are first generation egg farmers. In addition to producing 11,000 eggs each day, they operate an Organic feed mill. The feed from their mill is ...
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Van Belle Nursery

Abbotsford, BC
BC Horticulturalist


Van Belle Nursery was started in 1973 by Bill and Grace Van Belle and it is still running strong under the second generation of growers, Dave and Amy Van Belle ...
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De Jong Family

Abbotsford, BC
BC Dairy Farmer


“Buying and consuming locally produced food is one of the most environmentally responsible activities that consumers can do. It stimulates the local economy. ...
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Tahir Raza

Vernon, BC
BC Tree Fruit Grower


He grew up in a family of farmers but in 1992 he decided to leave Pakistan for a better life in Canada. Twenty years later, Tahir Raza returned to his farming ...
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Toop Family

Chilliwack, BC
BC Dairy Farmer


As a sixth generation farmer, Devan Toop has been in the barn since he was five years old. He gets a lot of satisfaction from working with the animals on a dai ...
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Lepp Family

Abbotsford, BC
BC Hog Farmer


Pork Producers | Abbotsford, BC Meet Rob and Charlotte Lepp and their family. The Lepp family have deep ties to the farming lifestyle and used to grow grain ...
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Pardeep Atwal

Abbotsford, BC
BC Greenhouse Grower


Pardeep has been part of Atwal Farms since she was a young girl, starting out picking berries and doing chores, then moving over to work in the cannery, where ...
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Juschka Clarke

Chilliwack, BC
BC Poultry Farmer


Juschka Clarke was born and raised in North Vancouver but is fulfilling her dream and her destiny of being a farmer. She raises 4000 organic laying hens at Haz ...
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Antonio & Tony DiMaria

Lake Country, BC
BC Tree Fruit Grower


Growing up on an apple orchard, you dream of the day you can leave. That was the case with Tony DiMaria as a young man on his father’s orchard in Kelowna and ...
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Railou & Rupinder Gill

Cawston, BC
BC Tree Fruit Grower


Farmers, in general, are no strangers to risk but Railou Gill appears to be quite friendly with the idea of taking chances. He and his father moved to Canad ...
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Van Keulen Family

Surrey, BC
BC Dairy Farmer


The Van Keulen family has been dairy farming in Surrey since 1955. Donia Farms is a third-generation farm with about 1000 acres of land and around 1000 cows. S ...
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The Krahn Family

BC Dairy Farmer


It’s no lie that Birchwood Dairy Farm is one of a kind. Although located in the Sumas Prairie of the Fraser Valley, this farm is always swarming with people, ...
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Shane Witzke

Kelowna, BC
BC Tree Fruit Grower


Shane Witzke’s Kelowna Ambrosia Apple farm is a long way from Nazi-occupied Poland but that’s where this story begins. Shane’s grandfather fled his ho ...
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Kerkhoven Family

BC Dairy Farmer


Fraser Valley dairy producers, the Kerkhoven Family, have been farming in Deroche, BC since 1955. Dairy farming is a 365-day job and one of various responsibil ...
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Avtar & Ronnie Mann

Vernon, BC
BC Tree Fruit Grower


Originally from India, Ronnie and Avtar Mann came to Canada separately but discovered a shared desire to grow great food. Number one on their list is growing b ...
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Dewit Family

Fort Langley, BC
BC Cranberry Grower


THE BOG Riverside Cranberry Farm is in beautiful Fort Langley, British Columbia. Brian and Mandy Dewit (and their children Caleb, Beckem, Gavin, Kenzie and Lex ...
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Aretha Westenenk

Chilliwack, BC
BC Dairy Farmer


Putting the cows first is a priority for Aretha Westenenk. Benco Holsteins, located in beautiful Chilliwack, has been in the family for over 60 years. One of t ...
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Steve Brown

Summerland, BC
BC Tree Fruit Grower


Steve Brown and his wife Amanda own and operate Happy Valley Harvest in Summerland, BC, where they grow cherries and a variety of apples such as gala, fuji, am ...
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