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Log Barn, grocery store in Spallumcheen BC

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About Log Barn


Stocking a rural kitchen takes more planning than it does in town. Farms in this part of the valley sit well back from the shops, and a Spallumcheen household tends to build its week around one trip that folds groceries in with feed, fuel and any other errand the drive can be made to carry. Log Barn sits at 4782 Highway 97A, on the corridor that runs the length of the valley floor between Vernon, Armstrong and Enderby through some of the most productive farmland in the interior of the province.

Highway frontage shapes a food stop like this one. It serves two customers at the same time: neighbours from the surrounding farms who are already passing the door, and people moving through the valley who would rather not detour into a town centre to eat. Country stores in farming districts also live by the calendar in a way that supermarkets do not, busier through the growing season when the roadside traffic is heavy, quieter once the fields are down to stubble and the valley settles into winter.

Log Barn, grocery store in Spallumcheen BC
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What an independent store of this kind carries varies a great deal from one to the next. Staples are usually there, alongside whatever local growers happen to be supplying, but the range is narrower than a supermarket aisle and it shifts with the season rather than staying fixed all year. That is a good reason to ring ahead if you are driving out for something in particular rather than simply calling in on your way past. The same goes for timing, since opening in a rural spot on a highway can follow the season and the weather as much as the clock, and a minute on the phone before you leave home saves a wasted run up 97A. For anyone travelling between Vernon and Enderby, it falls on the route rather than off it.

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4782 Highway 97A Spallumcheen, BC
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