Food
​Security

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!

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Local Food Producers

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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

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Local  Distributors

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• 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

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Local Connections

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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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