Farm stands in Armstrong and Spallumcheen, BC

Armstrong and Spallumcheen have more than a dozen farm stands, farm stores, and u-pick farms. Several are self-serve, so bring cash or check how the farm takes payment. This guide lists them by type, drawn from the farms and agriculture directory.

Most stands open by season, and stock changes week to week. Check with the farm before you go.

Self-serve farm stands

• Milk & Honey Acres, 3746 Creamery Road. The stand is open daily and sells baking, eggs, cut flowers, plants, and fall pumpkins.
• Hilltop Holdings Farm, 4135 Highway 97A. The self-serve stand sells free-run eggs, hazelnuts, and local produce in season.
• The Poplar Patch, 4245 Poplar Drive. The stand sells vegetables, fruit, eggs, honey, and fresh flowers. The family also grows a fall pumpkin patch.
• Spada Farms, 964 Evans Road. It sells farm eggs, homemade baking, and seasonal vegetables, herbs, and flowers.
• Sleepy Hollow Gardens, 4454 Sleepy Hollow Road. The stand sells strawberries, vegetables, cut flowers, garlic, eggs, and plants.
• Farm and Flower Co, 4480 Larkin Cross Road. This roadside flower stand also sells eggs and the farm’s own beef.
• The Flowerpot. A mother-and-daughter flower stand with fresh-cut bouquets.

Farm stores

• Pilgrims Produce, 1568 Eagle Rock Road. The self-serve Gumboots Farm Store is open Monday to Saturday, 8 am to 8 pm. The farm is certified organic and has grown food since 1991.
• Tilted Tree Farm Store, 4652 Highway 97A. It sells farm eggs all year, canned goods in warmer months, and crafts in colder months.
• Log Barn 1912, 4782 Highway 97A. A country market with produce, pies, fudge, ice cream, and hot food.
• Bee Yours Farm Store. A honey farm shop on Highway 97.
• Armstrong Farm Co.. The home farm stand is 6 km north of Armstrong on Salmon River Road. Asparagus season runs from May to June. Strawberry season runs from June to July.

Asparagus and vegetables

• Bellman Specialty Produce on North Grandview Flats Road grows asparagus, sweet corn, and specialty produce, and sells at its own farm stand.
• Grizzly Hill Farm is a third-generation Spallumcheen farm that sells asparagus in May and June.
• Good ‘n’ Plenty Produce on Pleasant Valley Road is a 35-acre family farm that grows more than 30 kinds of vegetables, plus flowers and strawberries.
• Jenny’s Garden on Pleasant Valley Road grows vegetables.
• Savoury Garlic Farm on Otter Lake Road sells Red Russian hardneck garlic, seed garlic, and garlic powder.

U-pick

• Iron Root Farm, 1640 Pleasant Valley Road, is a u-pick berry farm.
• The Pumpkin Patch, 642 St. Annes Road, is a u-pick pumpkin farm open each October. It also sells squash, gourds, and decorative corn.
• Sparrow Grass Field & Flower on Knob Hill Road has u-pick flowers.

Berries

• Mt. Rose Farm on Hallam Road grows more than seven varieties of haskap berries. The berries ripen in mid-June and are sold fresh or frozen.
• Gumboot Gardens grows haskap berries, vegetables, and cut flowers. Its season runs from April to September.
• Eagle Rock Berry Farm and Moore’s Berry Farm are berry farms in the directory.

The farmers’ market

The Armstrong Farmers’ Market at 3375 Pleasant Valley Road has run since 1972. Its motto is “We make it, bake it, or grow it.”

More local food

For beef, pork, chicken, eggs, and honey, see where to buy local meat, eggs, and honey. For bouquets, see our flower farms guide.

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