Dear friends and supporters, We are very pleased to say that The Local Food Box is back for the 2016 season! Parry Bay Sheep Farm, Stillmeadow Farm, Winter Creek Farm and Wind Whipped Farm are teaming up again this year to bring you their fine local food products in Metchosin and Victoria. We are now accepting member registrations […]
Dear Local Food Box members and friends, We hope this update finds you well and off to a good start for the New Year. We have been meaning to get in touch for a while to give an update and share our plans for the season ahead. As always, thanks to everyone who participated in […]
So your local food box farmers are trying something new this year. On August 23rd, we would like to invite our box members to a farm day. This will be a chance to visit Wind Whipped Farm, stop by the Stillmeadow Farm and Parry Bay Sheep Farm farm store, hang out in beautiful Metchosin with your farmers […]
Most days this week at least a dozen tractors fly (relatively) down William Head road, riding in high gear, past Wind Whipped Farm, with their mowers, tedders (egg beater rakes) and bailers to and from the patchwork of hayfields that surround us. Local Food Box partners Parry Bay Sheep Farm and Stillmeadow Farm are amongst them. As pictured above, they […]
The Local Food Box brings together five Metchosin producers. If you would like to know more about our operations and agricultural practices, please take a look at our websites and feel free to contact us directly if you have questions or comments. We look forward to hear from you! Vegetables are produced by Wind Whipped Farm. […]
The Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) was created in 1970’s by the BC Legislature in the 1970s. The Agricultural Land Commission (ALC) was kept at arms length from the government of the day so that the long-term protection of farmland would override short-term political considerations. With Bill 24, the BC government is transferring responsibility for farmland protection from […]
