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Hot Tip for Food Security:
NIcola Valley Farmers Market
is back for 2023

First meeting at  6 PM March 23,
Merritt Civic Centre - Room 3 
Come and help shape the future of our Farmers Market!



Local Food Producers

Meats:
  • ​Blue Sky Ranch (pork, beef)
  • 3 Bar Ranch (garlic, chickens)
  • MacVicar Family Farm​ check for open hours (eggs, meat, vegetables, coffee, garlic and more)
  • Renaissance Farms (dairy goats)
  • Farmers Larder (CSA meat boxes by subscription)
  • Black Diamond Ranch (beef, pork) 
  • Rafter P Ranch - (beef)

Honey:
  • Grimshire Apiaries (honey)
  • Coquihalla Apiaries (honey)
  • Moesy On Acres (honey, plants, skin care items, goats)
  • Miller's Farm (honey, goats, eggs)
  • Nicola Valley Honey (honey)

Eggs:  (Egg Labels Explained)
  • MacVicar Family Farm​  check for open hours (eggs, meat, vegetables, coffee, garlic and more)
  • Miller's Farm (honey, goats, eggs)
  • Purity Feeds (eggs, garden supplies)
  • Mobbs Funky Farm (eggs)
  • Fairley Homestead (eggs)
  • ​Crazy Creek Farms (eggs) 
  • Off the Grid Farms (eggs, veg)
  • Vanya Beck (eggs)
 
Vegetables / Plants:
  • Earth and Soul Collections (garden produce, baking, natural skin care products)
  • Purity Feeds (eggs, garden supplies)
  • Forest Moon Fungi mushrooms
  • MacVicar Family Farm​ - check for open hours (nursery plants, CSA veggie boxes by subscription)
  • 3 Bar Ranch (garlic, veg, chickens)
  • Petit Creek Lavender (lavender products)​
  • Off the Grid Farms (eggs, veg)
  • HIlltop Gardens Farm, Hwy 8​​
  • Anderson Organic Farms, Spences Bridge - look for us at Farmers’Markets
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Beer, Cider:
  • Left field Cider Co. Facebook
  • Empty Keg Brewhouse,  Facebook
  • Sunshine Valley Hops FB​​
Other:
  • NIcola Valley Community Gardens
  •  Shulus Community and Medicine Garden​
  • M.T. Dreams - cakes, muffins, sweets

*CSA = Community Supported 
Agriculture program



Local  Distributors

  • Nicola Valley Farmers Market 
  • Nicola Valley Meats (aka Kuipers)
  • The Local Butcher (traditional butcher shop)
  • Valley Graze Box artistic sampler food boxes
  • Pooley Ranch - meat
  • NIcola Valley Food Bank​
  • Nicola Valley Arts Gift Shop (local honey, granola, artisan items)
  • Lower Nicola Garlic Market (a late Sept. weekend)
  • Quilchena Store, Hwy 5A
 

Food Suppliers (wholesale)
  • Bar FX Ranch (beef)
  • Pooley Ranch (beef)​
  • Neale Ranch, FB (beef)
  • Kane Lake Ranch (beef)
  • River Ranch (beef)
  • Bell Ranch (beef)
  • Nicola Ranch (beef)
  • Douglas Lake Cattle Company
  • Quilchena Ranch (beef)
  • Guichon Ranch (beef)
  • 60 Ranch, Spences Bridge (beef)

Meat Processing Plant
planned to open 2024


Local Grocery Chain Stores:
  • Save On Foods
  • No Frills Foods
  • Walmart






Local Connections

Where to find food and other services:
  • Nicola Valley Food Bank
  • St. Michaels Church - soup kitchen
  • Nicola Valley Hospital Auxilary Thrift Store
  • ASK Wellness Society, Merritt - Facebook
Other Agriculture Connections
  • Small Scale Meat Producers Association
  • Merritt Gardening and Homesteading Facebook group
  • ​Nicola Valley Watershed Round Table​
  • TNRD Invasive Plant Management
  • NIcola Valley Beekeepers FB
  • NIcola Valley Rodeo Association
    • Merritt Little Britches Rodeo
  • Nicola Valley Fall Fair Association
  • Grassland Homesteader's 4H Club


Other Great Local Sources:
  • Earth and Soul Collections (baking, natural skin care products)



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