The Enderby & District Chamber of Commerce would like to extend a warm welcome to our newest Chamber member, Enderberry Farm and Shuswap Organics! Owen Madden and Emily Jubenvill have crafted an exquisite location in our local area, from which some of the choicest produce, berries, eggs, preserves and other delicious foodcrafts are produced.

One of their most delicious (and handy!) offerings is their Harvest Box, available from June to October. While you can still pick up the harvest box at Enderberry Farm, Salmon Arm and Revelstoke, you will soon be able to take advantage of their new Delivery Service, which will bring the bounty of the Shuswap to your door for 18 straight weeks.

Some of the amazing, GMO-Free, Organic produce available in a weekly Harvest Box. Click on the image to learn more about Shuswap Organics’ offerings,  call 250-351-9649 or email emily@enderberryfarm.ca

Customers can also purchase vegetables direct, ready for table at the farm gate:

In addition, Owen and Emily produce some truly amazing preserves, some which harken back to heritage recipes from Owen’s native Ireland, and inspired by Emily’s Vosges heritage. Some, however, are truly original flavor sensations, like their radish relish and tomato jam (pictured below, with serving suggestion).

We had an opportunity to sit down (virtually) with Owen earlier this week, to tell us a bit more about his company, his farm, and his passion for sustainable, locally-based food and lifestyle options.

“We have farmed organically at Enderberry Farm in Enderby since the summer of 2016, serving the local communities of Enderby, Armstrong, Vernon and Salmon Arm. Our favorite way to connect with our people is through our Harvest Box Program.

“The Harvest Box CSA runs from June to October, and is a weekly box of certified organic vegetables and berries from our farm, delivered to you. We offer an Early Bird Sign Up discount for the 2020 Harvest Season- get 10% off if you sign up and pay by April 8th!”

[While you can usually meet Owen and Emily- and fellow farmers Brittany (an horticulturist and also an ISA certified arborist) and Gavin Wright- at the Organic Farmers’ Market in Salmon Arm, for now you can reach the Farmers’ Market online at their website.]

“We also created a line of exciting preserves under the Shuswap Organics brand. You can see them at our website: www.shuswaporganics.ca . You can also find [our preserves] at local retail stores like Nature’s Fare, Askew’s and DeMille’s. When local retail stores took our preserves, some of them asked if we would supply our organic produce to them, too!”

[You can now find Shuswap Organics and Enderberry Farms’ produce at these local retailers]

“Our inspiration for starting our business was the realization that, through healthy local food, we can begin to address the bigger challenges our society faces, such as Climate Change. Every time alocal purchases one of our heads of lettuce, instead of one from California or Mexico, the climate wins!

“My personal joy in my work comes from knowing how close to our consumers we are, and how the food we provided to them travelled such a short distance. I know it was grown in the healthiest soil, without the use of harmful GMOs, pesticides or herbicides. I know we are improving the soil here every day we farm, and that will be our legacy when we can farm no more.

Enderby is a green oasis at the top of a much more arid, drier valley. It’s a hidden gem- I grow ever more appreciative of the folks I discover here, the longer I live here. We have felt supported, but feel there is so much more potential for us to supply food to this community of ours.”

Take advantage of this wonderful potential, and order your family a locally-sourced, organic Harvest Box today… add some delicious preserves, and celebrate living (and eating) local, with Shuswap Organics and Enderberry Farms.

–Clyde MacGregor,

G.M. EDCC