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Meet your farmer: Honest Food Farm

This week, a look at the organic Honest Food Farm

By Brennan Phillips

Special to the Western News

Yuri Zebroff’s family have been farming organically in the Okanagan for decades.

“My parents were one of the first organic farmers in the valley,” said Zebroff, owner of Honest Food Farm. “They moved to the valley back in the early seventies, and I grew up on an organic farm.”

Zebroff now farms both on his family’s farm in Cawston, and a leased farm in Keremeos. They raise wide variety of crops, ranging from root vegetables, to garlic, to fresh fruit, and even flowers. All of the crops produced are done so organically, just as Zebroff’s parents did.

“I grew up on an organic farm, and that would be the only way I’d ever consider farming,” said Zebroff. “With my family, my kids, we’ve been doing the market gardening for the last 17 years now. You can’t sugarcoat that there’s a lot of work involved, and if you go organic, there’s a lot more.”

Maintaining an all organic farm isn’t the easiest choice to make, but it’s the only one that Zebroff would make.

“The use of chemicals on a farm would never cross my mind. I was born organic, and obviously I’m going to die organic as well.”

You can find Honest Food Farm at the Penticton Farmer’s Market every Saturday in the 100 block of Main Street from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m.


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