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Farmer's Fruit & Produce
About Farmer's Fruit & Produce
Cherries first, then apples, then grapes, in roughly that order of local pride: the benchlands around here have been growing fruit far longer than the four communities have shared a single municipal name. Farmer's Fruit & Produce works that trade from 9918 Pollard Road in Winfield.
Buying fruit close to where it grew is a different exercise from buying it in a supermarket. Selection follows the season rather than a purchasing calendar, the window for any given variety can be a couple of weeks rather than months, and quantity is often the point, since a flat of cherries or a box of apples costs less per pound than a handful does. Call 250-766-2226 before a long drive, particularly at the shoulders of the season, and ask what is being picked rather than what is on the shelf. If you are canning, freezing or making sauce, say so, because seconds and bulk lots are cheaper and perfectly suited to the job.
Pollard Road sits off the highway strip among the orchard ground that surrounds Winfield, and the setting is a good part of the appeal. High summer is the busy stretch, when cherry harvest overlaps with beach season and the whole valley is moving between Kelowna and Vernon. Autumn is quieter and apples take over. Anyone driving in from Oyama, Okanagan Centre or Carr's Landing should treat a stop here as part of a loop rather than a quick errand, since the back roads are slow, narrow in places and shared with farm equipment.
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In the Winfield neighbourhood of Lake Country.
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