Okanagan Farm Fresh Markets

Fruit Stands, U-Pick's, Summer Orchard Tours

While you're here, visit Okanagan farm fresh markets, fruit stands, u-picks & and valley farm market orchards. It's what the Okanagan Canada is known for!!

Locally grown fruit is one of the wonderful benefits of living in the Okanagan Valley. Cherries, apples, peaches, apricots, nectarines, plums, and pears, to name a few, are available from June and right through the late fall season.

Fresh fruit and vegetables sold at valley farm market & fruit stands are picked daily so they are as fresh as though you picked them yourself.

Visit an Okanagan U pick farms on an orchard, where you'll enjoy orchard tours, lunch bars, petting zoos, ice cream parlors, gifts and local products like jams, jellies, pies and other fresh treats.

When you see U-pick signs anywhere along the highway, or even in some towns and cities, you can stop in and pick a bucket of fruit. U-pick farms usually offer cheaper prices for fruit when you pick your own. Fruit that is sold at fruit stands and orchard markets is generally picked early on the day markets open.

Most Okanagan farm fresh markets and fruit stands also sell fresh vegetables!!

Shuswap You Pick Farms, Fruit Stands And Farm Fresh Markets

The main agricultural industry in the Shuswap includes fruit, dairy, beef, hog, poultry, sheep, and vegetables, unlike the South Okanagan where you'll find more fruit. In the Shuswap you'll find wonderful farm fresh markets with strawberries, raspberries and other berries, cherries and other locally grown fresh fruit and vegetables (like oh so fresh corn!)

Geier's Fruit & Berry Farm

Located in Salmon Arm BC, Geier's Fruit & Berry Farm is a U-pick farm offering raspberries, strawberries and cherries. Open from mid June through late September, Geier's Fruit & Berry Farm, begins picking cherries around July 20 (please call first!) through around the 10th of August, and strawberries beginning around July 10th. This farm gate operation provides you with buckets, and everything you'll need to pick your own fruit. Please bring cash only.

Hanna & Hanna Orchards - Salmon Arm BC

Hanna & Hanna Orchards farm fresh markets sell local grown quality greens and fruits, including over forty apple varieties, throughout the summer and fall. You'll find also pears, peaches, cherries, apricots, nectarines, plums, and grapes. Fall fruits at Hanna Orchards like pumpkins, cucumbers, and corn are also popular. There are farm tours available, either self guided or guided by appointment, an ice cream shop, flower shop and also a bakery. Hanna & Hanna also makes their own delicious cold pressed apple juice, jams and preserves, and sell gifts in their gift shop.

De Mille's Sweet Corn & Produce

If you're thinking of taking a trip to De Mille's, plan to spend the afternoon! They have a whole list of attractions including farm tours, a petting zoo, a large collection of farm equipment and trucks, a great market with a bakery, deli (with our favorite Gort's Gouda cheese!), ice cream, a garden center, a summertime market featuring local artisans, and other local specialty products. DeMille's offers over 45 varieties of home grown, pesticide-free vegetables directly from their farm. Their famous sweet corn, is well known throughout BC and Western Canada. They also carry a large selection of certified organic and pesticide-free fruits. De Mille's is open daily - 8:00 a.m. to dusk, July through September. Demille's Farm Market is located just off the Trans Canada Highway on the right-hand side as you enter Salmon Arm from the west.

North Okanagan You Pick Farms, Fruit Stands And Orchards

In the North Okanagan you can find farm fresh markets and roadside fruit stands along the highway, at orchards, and some U pick farms. Here we've listed a few in the Vernon and Armstrong BC areas.

Gatzke's Farm Market - Oyama BC

Gatzke's Farm Maket is located 20 minutes north of the Kelowna International Airport and is the mid-point between the city of Vernon and Kelowna BC. You can't miss it along highway 97, right between Wood Lake and Kalamalka Lake. This longtime local farm fresh markets produces more than 50 varieties of tree fruits, and also sells fresh organic produce, and specialty products unique to the Okanagan including gourmet jams and jellies. They also have their own grandma Gatzke's homemade pies. Gatzke's also has orchard tours, a farm museum with a collection of antique farm equipment, two cabin rentals, a bakery, and a licensed patio restaurant and café. In the fall, you can find a great selection of pumpkins for halloween and your own homemade pumpkin pie!

Davison Orchards - Vernon BC

Located in Vernon, BC, Davison Orchards is a family farm fresh markets and country village, that specializes in apples, but you can get many other fresh fruits and vegetables. The farm itself primarily grows many varieties apples! Davison Orchards is open daily from May 1 to October 31. Plan to spend a few hours! It's one of the most fun summer activities for kids in the Okanagan Valley. They offer farm tours, and have a petting zoo, a gift shop, and a country pantry. You can buy homemade preserves, and enjoy their homemade sandwich lunches in the market cafe! U pick tomatoes and peppers are available at Davison Orchards, and other Okanagan fresh fruit and vegetables are available in the produce barn when in season.

Swan Lake Nurseryland & Garden Centre - Vernon BC

Swan Lake Nurseryland and garden center is located in Vernon BC and is open year round. Seasonal Okanagan Canada fruits and vegetables are available, as well as imported produce when locat harvest is out of season. There is a deli counter, bakery, and grocery department as well as ice cream, and a flower shop. The market is easy to find. Just follow Highway 97 north of the city of Vernon. It's on the left hand side near the Swan Lake RV Park & Campground.

Central Okanagan U Pick Farms, Fruit Stands, Farm Fresh Markets

Mike & Lizzy's U-Pick Cherries - Kelowna BC

Mike & Lizzy's U pick cherry orchard in the city of Kelowna is strictly a you pick your own cherry orchard. They open around the 10th of July and close when cherry season is finished, usually around the third week in July. They grow 4 popular varieties of cherries - Vans, Bings, Lambert and Lapin cherries. This is a popular u-pick orchard with some of the best farm fresh markets cherries around. If you go to Mike & Lizzy's, please leave pets at home. Children are welcome.

They provide buckets, stools and ladder's, and if you plan to pick large quantities of cherries, you may want to bring your own boxes. Mike & Lizzy's is open from 8 a.m. until about 2 or 3 p.m. daily depending on the heat. If it's too hot out, they close for the day, as the cherries just get too mushy. If you enjoy picking your own fruit, this is a friendly, no frills local orchard with a great reputation for fantastic fruit. Oh, and please bring cash only.

Kelowna Land & Orchard - Kelowna BC

Kelowna Land & Orchard is a large working orchard and tourist attraction that is open from April through October. This is a popular attraction for visitors (and us locals!) to the Okanagan Valley. You can take in a guided orchard tour (on a wheelchair accessible wagon), or a self guided walking tour of the farm.

Tours are very informative, where you'll learn about the process of fruit growing. Kelowna Land has a petting zoo with goats, sheep, chickens, a donkey and pony, llamas and alpacas, and their resident working farm dogs. Also around their farm are old pieces of farm machinery, tools, outhouses and other buildings that tell it's history. The farm store sells from a large selection of local preserves, tea, honey, candy, ice cream, local crafts, apple pie and their own 100% pure apple juice made on site. There's also a teahouse with lunch, dinner and desserts made from local produce. Kelowna Land & Orchard farm fresh markets is known for their logo'd and bagged apples, whereby fruit is ripened with a stencil applied to the skin. The logo is created on special apples through a specific process. Fruit available at K.L.O. includes apples, apricots, peaches, plums, pears, and cherries.

Paynter's Fruit Market - Westside Kelowna (Westbank BC)

Paynter's Fruit Market, is located in Westbank BC, and is open from July 1 until late November every year. One of their specialties is U-pick, when fruit ripening time and maturity are just right, but you can also get fresh vegetables. U pick cherries begin in July, followed by apricots, plums, peaches, pears, grapes, melons, vegetables, and lastly apples and pears.

Paynter's farm fresh markets also has tomatoes, peppers - hot and sweet, zucchinis, potatoes, onions, sweet corn, beans, peas, beets, carrots, squash and pumpkins. Inside the market you'll find a selection of delicious specialty products, Okanagan made, including some delicious salad dressing products (organic), Paynter's own Honey products, and a few other tasty treasures. Bring the kids along, to experience the fun of picking their own fruit and exploring farm fresh markets, and then to enjoy a refreshing ice cream from their ice cream parlor!

South Okanagan Fresh Fruit Vegetable Stands, Orchard Tours, You Pick Farms, Farm Fresh Markets

In the South Okanagan you'll find an apple orchard farm, u pick cherries, strawberries, and other you pick fruit and vegetables. Around Summerland and Trout Creek BC there are a number of fruit stands and farm fresh markets with a great selection of produce. Between the city of Penticton, Oliver BC and the town of Osoyoos, you'll see numerous roadside fruit stands perched along the highway.

Some U pick farms simply set out signs indicating you pick fruit, so if you spot one, just pull in and get picking!

Dickinson Family Farm - Summerland BC

Dickinson Family Farm, in Summerland, BC is home of the world's tallest tripod orchard ladder. It's one of the South Okanagan's farm fresh markets that grows some of the best fruit like delicious cherries! Enjoy fruit fresh from the tree, wander the orchard, watch the packing line, see some of their artifacts, or just relax and enjoy the experience of nature. Pre-booked guided tours are available, or you are welcome to wander through the 10-acre orchard on a self-guided tour.

Cherries, Peaches and Prunes, Pears, Apricots and Plums are all available beginning around mid July, and the fruit season sees it's ending mid October. You can get U pick cherries, including Rainer cherries, Lamberts, Bing and Lapin cherries begin near mid-July until the first week of August.

Granny's Fruit Stand - Summerland BC

Granny's is a Summerland BC country farm market with fresh daily picked local fruit and vegetables. A beautiful farm fresh marekts with great selection, they are open into the fall season, and have a great selection of pumpkins for halloween! There is a small play area for kids, picnic tables, and ice cream shop. Granny's fruit stand is located along Highway 97 in Summerland. You can't miss it along the roadside.

Granny's also offers orchard tours, but you'll need to call ahead to book. And make sure you take your camera here. You'll get great views of Okanagan Lake and the valley below.

Robert's Fruit Market & Orchard - Summerland BC

You'll find Robert's Fruit Market & Orchard just alongside the highway in Summerland BC. There's an ice cream shop for a treat, and picnic tables outside to relax at and enjoy the sunshine. There's also a bakery with their own homemade fruit pies. And of course, fresh fruits and vegetables too. They also have their own jellies and fresh preserves.

Blossom Fruit Stand - Trout Creek/Summerland BC

Blossom Fruit Stand in Trout Creek (Summerland BC) is conveniently located near Sun-Oka Beach Provincial Park. You can find excellent local farm fresh fruit and vegetables in season.

Blossom Fruit Stand and farm fresh markets also sells other locally made treats, jams, jellies, preserves, and snacks. It's a pretty fruit and vegetable stand along side the highway, and one of our favorite valley farm market stops between Penticton and Summerland.

The Golden Mile Fruit Market - Oliver BC

Golden Mile fruit stand is located on Highway 97, between Osoyoos and Oliver BC. Cherries, apricots, peaches and other Okanagan fruit and vegetables, locally-made fruit syrups, honey, jams, jellies and preserves are all available beginning around late June. These folks are open from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily during the summer months.

You can't miss them on the west side of highway 97.

Brar Orchards and Fruit Stand - Osoyoos BC

Brar Orchards and Fruit Stand is located in the town of Osoyoos, on the east side of Lake Osoyoos, just as you begin the climb up Anarchist Mountain.

Brar's farm fresh market offers delicious Okanagan cherries, apricots, peaches and other Okanagan fruit and vegetables. Fruits and vegetables are picked daily for the best freshness. They also have local made treats like jams, jellies and preserves.

Similkameen Valley Farm Fresh Markets
Organic Fruit Markets, Fruit Stands

The Similkameen Valley is surrounded by beautiful mountain ranges, and is filled with farms, orchards, wineries, and beautiful camping spots along the Similkameen River. Keremeos BC is known as the best place in British Columbia to buy fresh fruit and vegetables.

Apples, apricots, peaches, plums, and vegetables such as peppers, many different types of squash, and tomatoes are some of the best in the Okanagan. There are a number of farm fresh markets and fruit stands in and around of the town, or you can buy produce directly from the orchard farm. The South Similkameen warm climate lends best to growing, with vineyards and wineries quickly becoming part of the Okanagan wine industry.

If you have time for a day trip, a drive to Keremeos is well worth it, and very beautiful to boot!

Bear's Farm and Markets - Keremeos BC

Bear's Fruit Stand in Keremeos, BC is one of our favorite farm fresh markets to visit, especially during the fall pumpkin harvest season. Barry "Bear" Frasch's fruit stand is hard to miss as you reach the village of Keremeos. It's right along the highway just north of Keremeos at the By-Pass and HWY 3A. Among the many fresh fruits and vegetables grown in the Okanagan valley, you'll find, cherries, pears, peaches, plums, apricots, nectarines, and their fall specialty - pumpkins.

Every fall we enjoy a day trip on a warm, sunny Okanagan day, to Bear's to pick out a pumpkin (or two!) They also have the most wonderful selection of squash, peppers, tomatoes, corn and in season apples. Bear's Farm and Market is about a 40 minute drive west of the city of Penticton.

Blush Lane Organic Orchard - Keremeos BC

Blush Lane Organic Orchard offers a variety of excellent quality, fresh fruit and vegetables from their own orchard as well as the local community of Certified Organic farms. They are located 1 km west of the village of Keremeos.

If organic farm fresh markets are what you're looking for this is one of the best places to find fine quality produce! And the prices aren't too bad either!

Lidder's Farm Fresh Markets - Keremeos/Cawston BC

Lidder's Produce Market (Fruit Stand) is located on Highway 3 in Cawston, 5 minutes east of the village of Keremeos BC. Lidder's farm fresh markets produces all types of fruit and vegetables including apricots, apples, cherries, peaches, cantaloupes, peppers, and watermelons, tomatoes, plums, and nectarines. Fruit is tree ripened, picked fresh daily, and sold in the open farm fresh markets.

Lidder's offer delicious fresh produce directly from the grower at the most competitive prices anywhere in the Okanagan. It's a beautiful place for a stop as you travel around the Similkameen!