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Vendor Spotlight: Golden Meadows Honey Farm

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VENDOR SPOTLIGHT

Keep an eye out for our Vendor Spotlight feature where we bring you short interviews with our amazing vendors!

This Week: Golden Meadows Honey Farm

Find them online here and on Instagram here.

Photo of Christian and Xander with some of the 200 hives of bees in their family apiary in Pitt Meadows.

How did your business start?

Years ago, local family owned and operated business Golden Meadows Honey Farm owners, Lidia and Christian were bedazzled by the idea of a combined store that supplies the community with both honey & artisanal gifts as well as beekeeping supplies.

Christian’s ‘getter done’ attitude turned his interest in beekeeping into a complete bee operation, running the business’s mid-sized apiary focusing on pollination and speciality honey production.

Our storefront as well the opportunities to attend farmers markets allows Lidia to pursue her dreams of developing connections within the community to learn and to share our knowledge with others. Reflecting back, Lidia is awed by how much she has learned about bees’ significance to the environment, society and economy, and ways to learn from and support the bees. “I believe we have everything we need here within our community.”

The two combined their passions into a beautiful business!

 
What is your favourite product and why?
 
Every summer, when fireweeds are in bloom, we bring our bees to the backcountry of BC to collect precious nectar from the little pink-purple flowers that adorn the fireweed plant. This is where our most prized Fireweed Honey comes from! They’re considered to be the “Champagne of Honey” as fireweed honey is renowned for its fine, remarkable flavour and medicinal properties. Not only do they take longer to crystallize, they are also wild, which makes them equal to, if not better then organic!

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Thanks, Golden Meadows! We appreciate you joining us this season! 

Find them this week at the market, September 22nd, from 3-7pm in Tipperary Park.

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Our market is grateful to operate on the unceded land of the Qayqayt, Kwikwetlem, and other Halkomelem speaking Peoples. We acknowledge that colonialism has made invisible their histories and connections to the land. We acknowledge the incredible gift this land is to our market and BC Agriculture. We commit to the ongoing work of decolonization and allyship.