The famed Apple Festival is cancelled this year! The Salt Spring Farm Tour is stepping in to provide continuity and context, with a self-guided tour of Salt Spring Island’s finest farms and gardens. Saturday, September 29th and Sunday, September 30th, release your inner locovore! Join visitors on an ecological, agricultural, gastronomic odyssey through Salt Spring’s finest farms & gardens. See famed Salt Spring lamb, acreages shaped by permaculture principals, and Apple Luscious Orchard.
A dozen farms and market gardens have planned tours, demonstrations, and family fun: see cheesemaking in action, collect seeds from exotic herbs and perennials, and roam through exquisite vegetable and fruit oases in full bloom. Tickets are $25 for both days, $15 for students: kids under 15 by donation. Visit www.saltspringfarmtour.com to purchase, or visit the Farm Tour booth at the Tuesday Farmers Market. Visitors can also register at ‘the door’ on the day(s) of the tour at the Harbour House Hotel. The Harbour House are sponsoring the tour and will be distributing maps and information for farm tourists throughout the weekend of the 29th and 30th.
Apple Luscious’ own Harry Burton will be featured at the Farm Tour’s Saturday evening event, “Farming as though our lives depended on it: building local resilience & international solidarity”. At Artspring, September 29th, from 7:30 onwards…. Music, poetry & a double-dug discussi on will combine to illuminate the perils and opportunities before us as we move towards a more resilient and vibrant food future. tix 537-2102.
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