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Quality Greens
About Quality Greens
Fruit is not an abstraction in this valley. Orchards and vineyards climb the benches on both sides of the lakes, the roadside stands open as each crop comes in, and the calendar is marked by cherries, then apricots, then peaches, then apples running through into autumn. Penticton takes its mid August festival from the peach harvest, a tradition going back generations. In a place like this, a produce focused grocer is measured against what is ripening within a short drive of the front door.
Quality Greens can be found at 1077 Westminster Ave, sharing its address with one other listed business on a street set back from the downtown core and the Okanagan Lake waterfront. Penticton is compact enough that this is a few minutes from anywhere in the city, and parking is easy by the standards of a larger centre, which matters for a shop most people visit with a car and leave carrying more than they intended.
Shopping produce well means shopping to the season rather than to a list. What is best in July is not what is best in October, and the price and quality of anything grown locally track the harvest closely. Go early in the day for the widest choice, ask what has just come in, and expect the answer to change week to week through the summer. If you are buying in volume for canning or freezing, which plenty of households here still do, it is worth asking in advance about case quantities.
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In the Downtown Penticton neighbourhood of Penticton.
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