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While the Okanagan is an amazing place to grow fruits and veggies, one of the thing we lack is enough annual rainfall to sustain agriculture; if we did not irrigate it would be impossible to grow much of anything! This is most likely not surprising to you – if you do any gardening or have a lawn you know this very well. To me what is more surprising is that there are places that exist in this country that you don’t need to have irrigation systems! Rachel, my sister in law, grew up in Manitoba where there is so much moisture and the water table is so high they don’t even have to irrigate their gardens or farms. Amazing! What a diverse country we live in.
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We dug up some old pictures and put together some posters explaining it’s significance to the Vernon valley and to our farm. My favorite, is a picture we found of Nana’s mom giving her young sons a bath in the canal. That really brought the history to life for me. We hope to someday get the posters up on the popular walking trail above our farm, but in the meantime, come and check them out in the Silo above the market. 
The fact that we have the equipment to access water that is more than 300 feet below the ground is astounding! Talk about life-giving! As the saying goes, “Water is Life” and we would not experience such abundant crops without it. 
