Circle Farm Tours

If you're getting the feeling like you want to bust out of town and you want to avoid the line-up at the border, head out on a Circle Farm Tour. These 5 self guided tours take you across beautiful farm lands in Maple Ridge & Pitt Meadows, Langley, Abbotsford, Chilliwack, and Agassiz as you stop and sample all the wonderful local goods and produce this rich valley has to offer.

Here is a tiny list of what you will want to bring home for a most fantabulous outdoor meal: a bottle of wine from Le Domaine De Chaberton, cheese curds from Golden Ears CheeseCrafters, cranberry vinegar from The Fort Langley Wine Company, piles of strawberries and blueberries from Driediger Farms, and an antique table from Granny and Grumpa's to serve it on. Don't forget the organic Angus beef and a hand thrown salad bowl from Greendale Pottery, some blooms from Minter Gardens and freshly roasted coffee from The Back Porch. There are dozens of interesting places to stop, but my favorite tour is the Agassiz &Harrison Mills tour, the scenery and the proximity to Harrison Lake make the extra time on the highway worth it.

Visit www.circlefarmtour.com or pick up the summer issue of Edible Vancouver magazine at your local grocery store to find all the tour maps. Now is the time, the strawberries are here!