Naramata with Friday Group

We invited our Friday group this past September to Naramata, BC.  We stayed at Maya's grandparents house while they were away for a whole week!

We spent a lot of time nature.  Our friend Allison took us on a nature walk.


She showed us the Ponderosa Pine trees. We learned they were native to the region.


The bark of the poderosa pine trees smells like Vanilla . . . .who new! We also learned the how imortant forest fires are for the Okanagan forests.  The seeds in the pine cones need the heat from the fire be released to therefore to grow.

Allison invited us back to her beautiful back yard to see what one can grow. . . .

Lavender . . . smells amazing.


Allison has 6 chickens...


The chickens lay all different colours of eggs including a blue one.  She gave us a dozen eggs that we happily ate all up. 

She let us pull carrots from her garden.  There were a lot.

Oh the sunflowers.  Huge and yellow.

The last day we had big adventure and road bikes to an orchard. 

We got to pick apples, peaches and corn.  It was so great for us all to see where the food that we love to eat grows from.  Pasture to Plate at its best . . . in person!

Rod and his wife owned the orchard.  Rod was such a nice funny man who sold us ice cream too from his little shop.




 We LOVED the ice cream.  mmmmmmmmm!!!