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Blazing Bill’s Fermented Hot Sauce is s small, family owned business located in Moyie BC!
Web: Blazing Bills
Lacto fermented Kraut, Kimchi, Carrots, and hot sauces
Web: Counter Cultured
Certified organic vegetables and cut flowers. A local, organic community based farm on the outskirts of Fruitvale, BC.
Edibles Farm + Café + Catering is located in Windermere, nestled amongst the trees, shrubs and flowers at Winderberry. Our bright and inviting café aims to highlight all the delicious and creative food that can be made from the produce grown right here on our (soon-to-be certified organic) edibles Farm. The café menu will be ever changing and flow with the seasonal changes on the farm. A variety of fresh salads, soups and sandwiches will be available daily along with various baked treats, salsa’s and dips.
Web: Edible Acres
Frankia Fertilizers manufactures and distributes organic fertilizer and soil amendment products for building soil health and growing healthy plants. We are based in Grand Forks, BC on a rural farm property that has been organically managed for over thirty years, most of those years operating as a certified organic farm.
Web: Frankia Organics
Purveyors of fresh, farm grown produce, plants, fresh take-out food options and locally sourced goods in the Arrow Lakes Region of the West Kootenays.
Web: Fraser’s Market
We are butchers by trade, and ranchers at heart, and we have one simple aim: to provide our customers with top quality meat.
Web: Granby Meat Co.
Happy Gut Pro is a water kefir company that sells water kefir brew kits, grains, flavouring infusions and canned drinks.
Web: Happy Gut Pro
HAPPY artisan micro bakery is the culmination of my passion for baking, my love of painting
20 years basil farming. Now producing pesto.
Contact: harmonyhillbasilfarm@gmail.com
We are a small honour system roadside farm located in Invermere, B.C. in the Columbia Valley. All our produce and fruit is grown organically and with a love of the miracle that is gardening! The homestead was built by my great grandpa in the 1930’s and was a successful potato farm back then. The family has always loved to have our hands in the dirt!
Web: Homestead Harvest
High quality Wagyu, Angus and Bison…Traceability and accountability from pasture to your plate. At J2 RANCH we’re pretty darn proud of what we do and it shows. You’ll taste the difference that care makes when you try our juicy Wagyu steaks or prime cut Bison ribs. We take pride in our cattle, in how we care for them and in our commitment to great customer service.
Web: J2 Ranch
A marketplace in Grand Forks BC where local producers sell their products to customers.
Here at Kickin’ Joes, we’ve made a commitment to providing premium quality spices. We are dedicated to using fresh and local ingredients, grown in the Creston Valley. We personally mill, blend, and package our products on-site to ensure that they are sold at the peak of their freshness. We often hear from our customers that there is nothing else on the market that compares. We invite you to explore our unique and complex blends, and to experience flavour like nothing before.
Lanna Lavender has become, over the last couple of years, a small boutique farm specializing in high quality lavenders. We grow, we harvest, we process and we sell all our products ourselves and we sell direct off the farm to you at wholesale prices.
Web: Lanna Lavender
Our mandate is to provide economic development services within the Lower Columbia Region and to serve as the ‘first place of call’ as opportunities develop. The LCIC works to develop a creative, dynamic and competitive business environment that fosters economic growth.
At Mamacita’s, we hand make all of our empanadas with love. We use our family recipes to create authentic and indulgent Argentine empanadas; and we take pride in delivering delicious food to people who crave that laid back South American feeling.
Web: Mamacita’s Empanadas
Mama’s Dumplings offers authentic Northern Chinese style dumplings since 2014. It was founded by Ningmeng, also known as Coco, who immigrated to Canada from Jilin China in 2009. To fulfill the needs for authentic Chinese food in the community, Coco started making these delicious pockets of joy to share with friends and family using family traditional recipe. From there she had expanded the business to have a mobile food truck that travels around the Kootenays and made them available in stores and restaurants.Coco named it “Mama’s Dumplings” to honor her mom and grandma, who inspired her love for good food.
Web: Mama’s Dumplings
We’re a small team of coffee lovers living in a beautiful community surrounded by lakes, trees and mountains. It is our goal to provide the highest quality of life possible for our producers, our customers, and ourselves. That’s why we choose to buy organically grown and fairly traded coffee, offer sustainable jobs and try to give back as much as we can. We don’t take ourselves too seriously, but we do make customer service and accountability our priority.
Web: Oso Negro
Savoury. Handmade. Gourmet.
New Zealand Pies.
We are a family run beef cattle operation. Raising our cattle in the Granby River valley.
Raven Roast blends have been carefully chosen to maximise one thing: flavour. Unlike other coffee alternatives on the market, our blends provide you with a similar comforting coffee flavour. Soon enough you won’t even remember coffee’s name. Coffee who?! The herbs we use are skillfully roasted, providing you with that familiar, rich, bitter flavour. Raven Roast is easy to prepare and is delicious on its own, unless of course you are feeling fancy (hello cream and honey!)
Web: Raven Roast
We raise sheep for both fibre and meat production, including yarn, roving, raw fleece and wool pellets.
Web: Riverside Farms
At Silverking Soya Foods, Our tofu is available in an array of flavors, and our boutique method of making tofu includes a 100% magnesium chloride coagulant, which gives it that deliciously unique flavor. This tofu is described as being smooth, sweet and delicious.
Our adventure into tea has an unparalleled origin that started many years ago when Brad set out to grow and produce barely greens on his farm to supplement his diet that focused on mitigating Crohn’s disease. His journey resulted in a vertically integrated company that became one of the largest producers of barley greens in North America.
We grow seed-to-bottle hotsauce, syrups and spicy seasonings and distribute throughout the Kootenays and Okanagan.
Web: Stoke the Fire
Fun, Delicious & Approachable Plant-Based Grub.
Located in Nelson, the Kootenay Bakery Cafe’ Cooperative creates delicious sweet and savoury baked goods, breakfast, lunch and snacks.
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Our vegan chocolate is lovingly made in small batches and is free from dairy, soy, gluten and refined sugar. Made with organic ingredients sourced from cooperatives and farms that value human well-being and environmentally sustainable practices.
Web: Viva Cacao!
Our family has been pollinating fields around British Columbia for almost 40 years. with hives placed from the Coast to the Okanagan, our bees collect nectar from a variety of flowers, allowing us to offer a wide range of honey flavours back home in Invermere. We sell beeswax as well.
Web: Weaver’s Bee Co.
Wloka Farms Fruit Stand is run by Barb and Frank Wloka and their marvellous staff. Frank grew up in Creston orchards while Barb married into the operation in 1980. Together, they owned and operated a fruit stand in Creston for 16 years while raising their family. During that time, many mistakes were made and lessons were learned. Then 10 years expat work/travel was followed by a return to the Creston Valley and 5 years of cherry harvesting (about 400,000 lbs annually). In 2012 the land was purchased at the corner of 36th Ave and Hwy #3. Planted to a mixed orchard, it became the base for the Fruit Stand which opened in 2014.
We make gourmet, handmade sausages in the Kootenays full of flavour that you can feel good about eating! With no added: gluten, fillers, preservatives or fat, our unique flavours and reinvented classics are not like sausages you have known before!
Web: You Silly Sausage
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Specializes in producing high-quality softwood veneer and other wood products, as well as sustainably managing the forests where we work, play and live.
Web: Atco Wood Products
The staff and employees at Beaver Falls Machining Ltd. have been serving their customers in the West Kootenays for over 45 years. Formerly known as Ray’s Machine Shop, Beaver Falls Machining was started in 1961 and through the years has grown to better serve the changing needs of our customers. They currently provide machining, fabrication and welding services as well as steel, welding supply and cylinder gas sales to the private sector and major industries including mining, sawmill, pulp mill and recycling companies.
The staff and employees at Beaver Falls Machining Ltd. have been serving their customers in the West Kootenays for over 45 years. Formerly known as Ray’s Machine Shop, Beaver Falls Machining was started in 1961 and through the years has grown to better serve the changing needs of our customers. They currently provide machining, fabrication and welding services as well as steel, welding supply and cylinder gas sales to the private sector and major industries including mining, sawmill, pulp mill and recycling companies.
Eagle Graphite owns one of only two natural flake graphite production facilities in North America. The project, known as the Black Crystal graphite quarry, is located 35 kilometers west of the city of Nelson in British Columbia, Canada, and 70 kilometers north of the state of Washington, USA.
Web: Eagle Graphite
Fenix Advanced Materials is a clean technology company specialized in the manufacture of ultra-high purity metals of up to 6N5+ (>99.99995%) level
Building Value in All Dimensions Interfor is one of the world’s largest wood products companies with operations across North America and customers around the globe. With an annual lumber capacity of approximately 5 billion board feet from world-class facilities, we strengthen local economies, Interfor is one of the world’s largest wood products companies with operations across North America and customers around the globe. With an annual lumber capacity of approximately 5 billion board feet from world-class facilities, we strengthen local economies, build value for our employees and customers and participate in sustainable forest management with sustainable building materials.
Web: Interfor
Our projects are focused on mechanical, automation and structural engineering. This core competency is augmented by utilizing a 3D workflow that includes LiDAR scanning, modelling, Virtual Reality reviews and shop ready detailed drawings live linked to 3D design models. The goal of our work is to deliver meaningful results that fit the first time. We are driven by the improvements achieved by our clients as the result of our work.
Web: IO Design
In business since 1977, KC Recycling has grown to become the largest lead acid battery (car battery) recycler in Western Canada and the Pacific Northwest of the United States. In addition to lead acid batteries, we process electronics and cathode ray tube (CRT) glass, and sell all of the commodities generated by our operations, which include aluminum, copper, plastic, and steel.
Web: KC Recycling
Mandala Custom Homes provides unique dwellings that are meaningful, healthy and energy efficient. Our guarantee that your new prefab home will be more comfortable than a standard home comes from the experience of building British Columbia’s first ENERGY STAR certified home in 2011. Mandala Custom Homes’ full design and planning service is backed by over 70 years of house building expertise. After creating a fully customized design, your expertly crafted home package is shipped directly to your site where it is assembled and finished to rest in place for many generations to come.
Web: Mandala Custom Homes
Give your career and confidence a head start by learning how to drive a truck The MTI Way. Mountain Transport Institute (MTI) is the leading professional truck driver training school in North America where we are focused on teaching you to be Professional, Responsible, Reliable, Knowledgeable and Safe. At MTI we train you to be the best professional truck driver possible and we are now offering the BC MELT program.
Web: MTI
For over 25 years, we’ve built our reputation as global leaders in battery recycling and management. Today, as one of the most knowledgeable and diverse battery recycling companies in the world, we’re moving forward to meet the growing demand for custom recycling solutions
Web: Retrive Technologies
Give your career and confidence a head start by learning how to drive a truck The MTI Way. Mountain Transport Institute (MTI) is the leading professional truck driver training school in North America where we are focused on teaching you to be Professional, Responsible, Reliable, Knowledgeable and Safe. At MTI we train you to be the best professional truck driver possible and we are now offering the BC MELT program.
Web: Rockwool
SMRT1 Technologies is a technology company based in Nelson, British Columbia, Canada. We specialize in interactive, cloud-connected, smart dispensing solutions that provide engaging, frictionless, convenient, customer experiences. Make informed data-driven decisions with our tailored real-time dashboard analytics.
Web: SMRT1 Technologies
Chris Sutherland, along with his Father Robert Sutherland, founded Sutco Contracting LTD in 1995 with one logging truck and vision of maintaining a family oriented business while becoming the transportation specialists for their customers. General freight, heavy haul, wood residual hauling and freight brokering are now the mainstays of Sutco. However, as the transportation needs of Sutco’s customers evolve they continue to seek new and better ways to maintain their commitment to being transportation specialists.
Web: Sutco Transportation
Teck’s Trail Operation is one of the world’s largest fully integrated zinc and lead smelting and refining complexes, located in southern British Columbia.
Web: Teck Metals Ltd
Tervita is an industrial waste and environmental services company with facilities and services in Canada and the US.
Web: Tervita
Give your career and confidence a head start by learning how to drive a truck The MTI Way. Mountain Transport Institute (MTI) is the leading professional truck driver training school in North America where we are focused on teaching you to be Professional, Responsible, Reliable, Knowledgeable and Safe. At MTI we train you to be the best professional truck driver possible and we are now offering the BC MELT program.
Web: Vaagen Fibre Canada
Valid™ designs, engineers, and manufactures innovative and reliable solutions for a wide range of industries. Our reputation has been built on delivering robust products that are always backed with our exceptional 24/7 customer support.
Web: Valid Manufacturing
Located in Trail, BC, XL Quality Industrial Services Inc. has positioned itself to service engineering and industrial contractors who need specialized fabrication, welding, machining and corrosion prevention services.