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Grist Mill and Gardens at Keremeos
About Grist Mill and Gardens at Keremeos
Upper Bench Road climbs away from the highway strip that carries most of the valley's traffic, and at 2691 Upper Bench Road it reaches a provincial heritage site built around a working nineteenth century grist mill. Twelve acres of heritage buildings, orchard ground and cultivated gardens surround the mill itself, preserved as a working record of how a farming valley fed itself before trucking made distant milling the normal way of doing things.
Sites of this kind generally combine a self guided walk through the grounds with staff led tours through the mill building and its machinery, along with educational programs aimed at school groups and visiting families. Heritage properties of this scale usually run on a seasonal calendar tied to weather and staffing rather than opening year round, and the gardens in particular change through the season the way any working garden does.
The Grist Mill and Gardens at Keremeos opens for the season from Easter through Thanksgiving, generally nine in the morning to five in the afternoon, with admission collected at the gift shop and children five and under let in free. The number is 250-499-2888, and oldgristmill.ca carries the current season's dates and programs. Anyone planning a special trip up Upper Bench Road, especially outside the main summer months, should call ahead or check the website first, since a heritage site staffed seasonally can adjust its hours with little notice.
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