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RR7 Farmstead is located on the sunny southern ridge of Mount Elphinstone in beautiful Gibsons, British Columbia. RR7 supports local food sustainability through ethical sourcing, production, and distribution. We promote healthy living by providing the best quality food that nature can provide.
The upcoming growing year marks 7 years of growing on this beautiful ridge of Mount Elphinstone and for us, it has been an incredible experience; not just from the many learnings this land, which we hold in sacred regard, has provided us but for the amazing shared fellowship of the wonderful communities around us. While it may seem easy to take it for granted or to allow the circumstances of the last few years to lessen our enthusiasm, the exact opposite has happened and we find the tethers to this community and this place even stronger than ever and it is time to take the time, to move forward in celebratory gratitude and to do more for the land, more for our community and more for our souls.
Growing is only part of a sustainable circle of life and this year we will be doing more with less, reducing our consumption of regional supplied water, reducing our consumption of single-use packing including finding more uses for it, growing single cultivars to collect seeds for all our vegetables, fruits and flowers, expanding the growing season for local availability and taking that next step to make more of what we use. While you have seen examples of that over the years – broom making, baking, stamping, fine art, and lots of other crafts, what is new is that is the realization that expressing core values is more of a priority more than ever. We have enjoyed experimenting and looking for better-tasting cultivars and now we just want to grow the one we love the most so that you can take seeds from our heirloom vegetables and have the same delicious outcome from those seeds.
This is an extraordinary place with compassionate, smart, and kind people who put their talents and time to making the Sunshine Coast what it is and we continue to be inspired by you all – customers, fellow growers & food producers, artisans of all types, shop keepers, great folks at local veterinarians, neighbors….and so many more. It is the start of a new phase and we are excited to share it with you through videos, blogs, pictures, art and of course, here at the Farmstead through the months ahead. We look forward to this year, unlike any before, and most of all, we invite you to share it with us.s.
CORE VALUES
QUALITY
Our growing standards far exceed certified organic growing practices. We are not just growers but rather environmental permaculture stewards of a beautiful and sacred land that we are blessed to call home.
HERITAGE
We cherish the lessons of our heritage and encourage our customers to step back in time with us as we honour our families by growing and sharing their lessons with our community.
COMMUNITY
Growing to the capacity of our land while also growing what is most suitable to the conditions, enables us to have a plethora of delicious produce that we are proud to make available for our neighbours to buy.
Our farm gate is open for the season
Eat well, stay well, we are all in this together.
The chickens
To biuld a nice loking coop means starting right from the foundatioon. We removed all the top soil exposing the clayi & gravel subsoil. Reusing triple 2 x 6 presure treated skids we soon were nailing walls.We stood the frame up and then we were building the 6...
growing oyster mushrooms
Oyster mushrooms at winter solstice are one of midwinters almost magical things. Like apples, mushrooms leave me thinking " from a tree, really! from a tree. The world around me froths with different mushrooms and I am fortunate to be able to grow some.here on mount...
Christmas morning 2022
Christmas morning 2022 and about four days ago I got the sniffles. We canceled our Christmas plans. I got up and made a warm fire to have coffee with. I am feeling very good, no symptoms.Kelly made bagels for our breakfast. She also provided the cream cheese, capers,...
