4th Annual BX Farm Tour
A tour of the food, farms, and sights of Vernon’s BX region
On September 21st and 22nd, 2024 you’re invited to “Know Your Farmer, Explore the BX”—to connect with local food, to better know your farmers and how they are farming, and to explore all the BX has to offer. The BX is a rich agricultural region with lots of walking and hiking trails and is the perfect place to get out and explore your own backyard.
The BX Farm Tour is hosted by the farmers of the BX, with support from the North Okanagan Land to Table Network, RDNO, Butcher Boys, Tourism Vernon, Vernon Museum and other local partners.
This year, each farm has a special something we are featuring to keep it fresh and fun – visit from 10 am to 4 pm to explore our farm stands, engage in self-guided or organized tours, and participate in on-farm events! It will be a fun day for the whole family to enjoy.
You can drive or walk the route and take an afternoon or a day.
The BX Farm Tour is yours to explore, your way.
Farmstands and Farm Tours
Saturday and Sunday
September 21st and 22nd, 10 am - 4 pm
A weekend full of farmstands, farm tours, and events! Browse through the BX Farm Tour Guide to plan your weekend. You’ll also have the chance to check out local farmstands and shop for products that were grown or made right on the farm.
BX Farm Tour Grand Prize plus two smaller prizes: Stop by all seven farm tour locations to fill up your BX Farm Tour Passport and you’ll be entered to win a harvest basket filled with goodies donated by the farmers!
Want more than 1 chance to win? For extra entries take a selfie at each of the 8 locations. (Each location is an extra entry) Tag the location and #BXFarmTour on Instagram for your chance to win – must be a post (stories won’t count!).
New this year we also have a coloring contest. If you have a little one that loves to color please download the colouring page. Then drop off your finished art at one of the 7 locations. All entries will be entered to win a prize.
Know Your Farmer
Get to know the places and faces that make up the 4th Annual BX Farm Tour. Learn more about our featured farms below, and don’t forget to check out the other must-see spots in the BX!!
Indigo Valley Farm
Indigo Valley Farm will have a self-guided farm tour as well as a farmstand with haskap berry products (jam, juice, sauce, freeze-dried, fruit leather & frozen berries). Special event: fresh, made-on-the-spot poffertjes! (Dutch mini pancakes served with haskap sauce).
Address: 5565 Day Road
Hours: Farm Stand open each day 10am-4pm
Categories: Farm Stand; Farm Tour (Self-Guided)
Parking: Park at the top of the driveway. Overflow parking on grassy area at bend, half way up the driveway. Wheelchair accessible but difficult for self-guided tour (uneven sloped ground)
Washroom Available: Yes
Elderberry Fields
We both come from farming families and yearned to get back to our roots. We started with garlic but have phased that out and are now a fully planted organic elderberry orchard.
Elderberry Fields Farm Stand will offer our NEW farm to table elderflower products, elderberry products, and frozen elderberries. There will be farm tours available – come and see an elderberry orchard in its final stage of development.
Address: 5469 Hughes Road
Hours: Farm Stand open each day 10am-4pm
Categories: Farm Stand, Farm Tours (Organized)
Parking: Park on Hughes Road near the farm gate. Wheelchair accessible to the stand.
Washrooms Available: No
Vanzeal Acres
Vanzeal Acres is a first generation family run flower and hobby farm. Developing and enhancing our 5 acre farm into a diverse agriculture environment is a passion of ours and being able to spread our love of flowers to the community is an added joy.
Stop by to enjoy pre-made flower bouquets or make your own bouquets. As a family farm there is something for all ages.
Address: 5360 Hughes Road
Hours: Farm Stand open each day 10am-4pm
Categories: Farm Stand, On-Farm Event; Farm Tours
Parking/Accessibility: Parking in specified spots on the farm, additional parking along Hughes Rd. It is a farm so weather permitting can be muddy.
Washroom Available: Yes
Wildwood Acres
At Wildwood Acres Garden Farm we are working to create a permaculture food forest approach for our gardens, our livestock (goats) and ourselves. Our philosophy is a blend of traditional and modern practices of homesteading – we grow, we harvest, we preserve and we produce natural products like goat milk soap and shampoo bars, and we blend organic herbal teas with healing purpose and we create other plant based holistic healing products.
From our edible garden, our lavender and wildflowers to our pollinator garden and our health & healing garden we are in love with what Mother Earth has given us. Our farm is featuring our lavender this year. It’s all about the pure joy of lavender – we will have food and drink featuring lavender, recipes and some extra special ways to enjoy this amazing herb. Our farm stand will be at Elderberry Fields this year where we will have produce, our natural products and flowers for sale as well.
Address: Farm Stand at Elderberry Fields; 5469 Hughes Road
Hours: Farm Stand open each day 10am-4pm
Categories: Farm Stand
Parking: Follow parking signs
Washroom Available: Yes
Brookside Orchards + Bee-Yotch Honey
Brookside Orchards is proud to be partnering with Bee-Yotch Honey! Visit the orchard to sample unique apples and honey. Bee-Yotch Honey will have an observation hive so you can meet the hard-working ladies and spot the Queen bee. As well as the opportunity to make and take some beeswax luminaries.
Our farm stand will also be open to the public to purchase this amazing honey as well as bags of Certified Organic Apples as well as creamed lavender, spicy, and wildflower honey.
Happy Touring BX’s amazing farmers!!
Address: 5393 East Vernon Road
Hours: Farm Stand open each day 10am-4pm
Categories: Farm Stand; On-Farm Event
Parking: Please be careful when parking as to not block any roadways or driveways.
Washrooms Available: No
Morrison Funny Farm
Visit for pasture-raised pork, lamb and chicken, eggs, products and preserves.
While Courtney comes from a farming family, Chris does not, so we are definitely learning as we go. We started with chickens for eggs, then added chickens for meat. Now, we raise pigs in the spring for fall harvest. We also keep two breeding ewes and a ram for lambs in March.
Stop by Morrison Funny Farm to meet our ram, Boss Baby, hold a newly hatched chick, and check out our preserves—maybe even try some samples!
Address: 5515 East Vernon Rd
Hours: Farm Stand open each day 10am-4pm
Categories: Farm Stand
Parking: Follow parking signs
Washroom Available: Yes
Learn about the sncəcmałqtn Agricultural Park
sncəcmałqtn Agricultural Park
The sncəcmałqtn Agricultural Park, formerly referred to as the BX Ranchlands, was recently renamed in partnership with the Okanagan Indian Band, to align with the Syilx territory it resides on – it’s meaning is “place of small crops or gardens” (hear the Syilx pronunciation here). This site is approximately 134 acres of agricultural land located on the outskirts of Vernon, with historical significance to the area. Local residents know the area for its perimeter walking trail; what you may not realize is that a development plan has been proposed to transform this site into a community-owned agricultural park. The intention is to have users, such as farmers, community organizations, Indigenous groups, and school groups accessing the park for agriculture, research, and land-based educational opportunities by Spring 2025.
Learn more about agricultural opportunities here: sncəcmałqtn Agricultural Park
Stop by to learn more about the plan, view the site map, and speak to BX/Swan Lake Resident Association members.
Address: 4122 East Vernon Road
Hours: Information booth each day 10am-4pm
Categories: Info booth; informative handouts; walking trail
Parking/Accessibility: Parking lot at address.
Washroom Available: No
Explore the BX
When you’re out on the farms, don’t forget to check out these must-see spots along the route.
Cambium Cider Co.
Relax and enjoy farmcrafted ciders and artisan breads and small bites, all under a shady patio or in the beautiful apple orchard.
BX Falls Trail
A cool, refreshing hike that follows BX Creek. Take a short hike to the waterfalls or viewpoint, or head out for a longer creekside hike.
Grey Canal Trail
A hiking, biking and horseback riding wilderness trail that follows the old Grey Canal irrigation system alignment around Vernon.
Take the Tour
Drive or hike and explore the farms and sights of the BX
The 2024 BX Farm Tour is supported by:
