Kelowna's Juicy Tips

With Earth Day coming up on April 22 (next Thursday), here are some ways that a local restaurant and resort are marking the occasion with on-going green practices and a very special 100-Mile Menu…

One of Kelowna’s charms is its proximity to rural landscapes – city meets orchard. On a bike ride last weekend, I marveled at how quickly we went from a residential area to cycling past acreages and orchards along Valley Road. The orchards are beginning to reawaken, and it reminded me that every year, one of [...]

Vineyard managers will tell you that a critical element to growing great grapes for wine is not to overwater them. You want small, flavourful grapes to make award-winning wine. With the new greywater catchment system of Tantalus Vineyards environmentally-minded winery facility, this winery will be able to achieve this goal using the rainwater they collect.

Wow – this is great news! Kalala Organic Winery in West Kelowna has netted some really fantastic awards: one for their Chardonnay Icewine at the Chardonnay Du Monde competition in France (the Oscars of the wine industry); and one for their Riesling at the California New World International Wine Competition. Both these competitions are high [...]

St. Patrick’s Day has come and gone, and it has made me think about just how many pubs we have here in Kelowna. We have a very active pub scene, maybe in part because as a community, Kelowna tends to be laid-back and casual – meaning that we like to go out in groups of [...]

Last fall, an article in the travel magazine Endless Vacation focused on the food scene in our abundant slice of BC. In a section entitled “Arrival of the Chefs”, author Anita Stewart enumerates the many star-quality Chefs that this valley attracts. Her premise is that where there is fresh produce in abundance, chefs will follow. [...]

I love seeing people discover Kelowna for the first time. I love the way the landscape speaks to them, the way they get fired up when they meet great people here, the way they can’t get over how many different activities they can do here. That’s why travel stories about Kelowna are so appealing – [...]

There are lots of classic holiday drinks – think eggnog, hot cocoa, champagne… but one of the most popular is surely mulled wine. Especially in Kelowna, where wine is plentiful and lots of us like to spend our vacations with active outdoor pursuits like skiing, cross-country skiing, or on a winter hike – that’s when [...]