Kelowna's Juicy Tips

I checked the weather report, and we’re looking at a pretty decent Mother’s Day! 19 degrees and sunny… right Mike Roberts?  So I thought I’d suggest a nice Mothers’ Day walk as an activity to do with Mom on Sunday. The Mission Creek Greenway is the perfect ticket for an invigorating stroll.

Further to my post of April 23, here is our second focus on Spring Wine Festival on Kelowna’s Juicy Tips from the radio show of April 30. Enjoy!

One of the surest signs that spring is well underway is the arrival of the Okanagan Spring Wine Festival. It’s how we Okanaganites (did I just make up a word?) celebrate bud-break in the vineyard, that magical time when the tiny green buds finally open up into fledgling leaves. I digress. Where’s that glass of [...]

If you’ve wandered the waterfront of Kelowna lately, you’ll be pleased that the section in front of City Hall is now open, connecting Kerry Park to Waterfront Park and the marina. Construction is still on-going, of course, and you might be curious as to what it will all be like. Here’s the skinny.

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.

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 [...]

Full disclosure: I am a menace with golf clubs. And I don’t mean “menace” in a flattering way. If I said that I give new meaning to the word “slice” that might be too kind. However, I can host great golfers with the best of them. Today I’m here to tell all you golfers in [...]

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. [...]