Kelowna's Juicy Tips

Everyone loves a ghost story, and I stumbled across one this year in a decidedly unspooky – in fact, charming – place: Kelowna’s boutique Hotel Eldorado.

I made a discovery I’d like to share with you. Last night for dinner, I did something that I should do more often. I made the short drive down Highway 97 from Kelowna to Lake Country, turning right at the big blue & white boat on the side of the highway (you know the one), [...]

Meet Rob and Denise. They are the owners of Camelot Vineyards, a new cottage winery in Kelowna, and they have a great story of fate and family support that led them to where they are now. As flight attendants for Air Canada as well as being owners of a winery, this couple sure knows how [...]

This article on Kelowna.com by Kathy Michaels pays tribute to a hotel that has long walked-the-talk of environmentalism in Kelowna. It was sparked by the Best Western receiving the Minister’s Award of Excellence from the Honourable John Yap, Minister of State for Climate Action, who personally came to the Best Western to present the award [...]

One of the first times I went to Carmelis Goat Cheese Artisan (a few years ago with some visiting media) I came face to face with a bone chilling fear of mine: blue cheese. In fact, I’d never had blue cheese before, and I thought that I was philosophically opposed to it. We’d done the [...]

Everyone knows that at this time of the year, the weather can do just about anything. A few days ago a surprise frost had grape pickers snipping bunches, double-time. And that’s exactly what happened a few years ago at Kelowna Land & Orchard Co in East Kelowna – freak frosty weather froze their late harvest [...]

All you Diana Gabaldon fans out there: you’ll want to make your way to Kelowna on October 18 for her book signing of the newest book in her Outlander series, An Echo in the Bone! I found out about this book signing from a friend of mine who is a fan of this author, and [...]

I was at McMillan Farm last week to check out their corn maze, which I had heard is a ton of fun. Let me tell you, it was quite a discovery for me! First of all, I’m pretty sure that I’ve never been in a corn maze. Well, lesson number one is that it’s never [...]