​With the ongoing global concern regarding COVID 19, we are ensuring that the stand is kept as clean/sanitized as possible, to provide you with the best and healthiest experience at our farm. We are open from Friday- Sunday, from 10 am-4 pm.   For the health and safety of our staff and customers, everything will be sanitized before and after you come!
Thank you for your ongoing and continued support in these uncertain times.
Lorne and Barbara Ebell

Nanoose Edibles is a Certified Organic Farm
located on Vancouver Island, BC

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Nanoose Edibles Farm is located at 1960 Stewart Rd, Nanoose Bay, BC.  We supply restaurants, local businesses, and our stand at the farm with Certified Organic food.  Our farm is known for its famous salad/nutritional greens which will leave you coming back for more.  In the summer we offer u-pick strawberries/raspberries where families come to the farm with a lunch to make a day trip out of it.  Yet in the winter on a cool day, it is still nice to go for a walk and see all the greenery.   In the spring and fall, the farm is a great place to come and find transplants, and apple/plum trees.  -Summer hrs are 10 am-5 pm, Tuesday-Sunday
-Winter hrs are 10 am-dusk, Friday, Sat, and Sunday. 
We hope to see you soon!
Please talk to your children about the farm rules

  • Please be aware that an ELECTRIC fence surrounds the perimeter of the farm and one end of the pond.  Please stress this to your child that it isn’t to experiment with.
  • The float on the pond is out of bounds to children without a parent in attendance.  The dock can be slippery and tipsy and is unsafe for small children.  
  • Tools, machinery and other farm equipment are located around the farm.  Please do not play with the farm machinery and equipment.   It is against the rules of the Farm Safe Program.
  • Chickens are fun but proper care of sanitation after touching them is required.  Please also make sure no outside food goes into the coop.
Join Guest Speaker Chris “Farmer” Brown to discuss how we can lead the way to an agricultural model that works for people before profit. Be part of this engaging and important Town Hall forum via Zoom.
Date: July 9th
Time: 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM PDT
Where: Zoom Video Conferencing
RSVP: https://www.bcgreens.ca/food_security_nanaimo_townhall 
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Vancouver Island once grew enough food to feed its residents. Increased population with its accompanying loss of farmland, the rise of “big food” farming and distribution, and the COVID-19 shutdown has clearly demonstrated the vulnerabilities in the system. Join us in this vital and timely Town Hall Forum with Vancouver Island agricultural expert and farmer Chris Brown.
British Columbia, Vancouver Island and Nanaimo can do much more to encourage and develop local food production and distribution
Is there anything more basic to our health, our security and our survival than nutritious, healthy, and available food? Do we need to import as much food as we do? What are the alternatives to corporate farming and distribution? Can a local focus produce what we need? Can we, in short, make our food supply safe and abundant?
These questions are of the utmost importance for the country, the province, the Island we love, and Nanaimo and the mid-Island. Join our Town Hall Forum and let us know your thoughts on this most essential of topics? Tell us what you think might work, or what you have seen in other jurisdictions that do or don’t work. What do you think the government can or should do? How “local” is local?
One of the greatest downfalls of globalization revealed by the coronavirus pandemic is the fragility of our food systems. The B.C. Green Party believes that we need to be in control of our food production, safety and supply.
Guest Speaker: Chris “Farmer” Brown
Chris, widely known as Farmer Brown, is a local farmer and agriculturalist who has been involved in the agricultural industry for nine years. He is well-versed in issues and concerns surrounding food here in Nanaimo and across the island. He sees viable solutions and potential opportunities for the present and the future. Chris will lead discussions about the current challenges in the farming industry, the opportunities he sees for our community, and what we can do to support and promote sustainability in agriculture for our community and the island.
We look forward to hearing your thoughts on July 9th. We’ll send out reminder emails leading up to the Town Hall.
 
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Thank you,
Michele Ney
Chair
Nanaimo Riding Association
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world; as that is the only thing that ever has.” - Margaret Mead