Father's Day 2020 Opening Update!
Opened For 2020!
Father's Day Opening turned out well; we had a great day with kids planting for Daddy, playing in sandboxes, feeding the animals, cow train rides and hayrides with their family. Come check us out from Wednesday to Sundays from 9am-5pm with the exception of Sundays from 2-5pm for kids' farm attractions and locally grown fresh vegetables 🧄🍅🥬🥒
Exciting Updates!
WELCOME OKANAGAN!
WELCOME OKANAGAN!
WELCOME OKANAGAN!
Busy Working Moms 🚜 We're 2 moms with 10 kids ages 14 to 0 working with our husbands to create a safe natural fun-filled outdoor activities play place for young kids on a large farm right in our city. Kids are welcome to our farm at 2912 Grieve Road, Kelowna from Wednesday to Saturday 9am-5pm and Sundays 2-5pm to enjoy our petting zoo and other fun farm attractions 🐣 $5 entry for kids includes playing in sandboxes, feeding the animals, cow train rides and family hayrides. Come check us out for these kids' farm attractions and locally grown fresh vegetables 🧄🍅🥬🥒
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The Big News
WELCOME OKANAGAN!
WELCOME OKANAGAN!
Janzen Garlic Acres (JGA) is under new management and is being operated solely by Monde Janzen. This summer/fall 2020 farm season we will be focused on bringing you eco-friendly vegetables while taking orders for our gourmet garlic for 2021. Due to Covid-19, we are promoting social distancing by relying more on our website, phone, and email to handle most of our customer engagements, sales, and other essential farm services. At JGA we are still committed to connecting our amazing community back to nature. Please check out our website; https://janzengarlicacres.ca/. You can also call or text us at +1250-241-4586 or email info@janzengarlicacres.ca for orders and other inquiries. Thanks for all your support and we look forward to serving you.
OUR MISSION
- We strive to create a place where our community is connected back to nature by teaching children and adults where most of our common foods come from.
- Our goal is to supply our community and surrounding towns with locally grown, pesticides free, no spray gourmet garlic and vegetables in the heart of the Okanagan.
- Our vegetables are grown using environmentally friendly practices that are beneficial to the soil and encourage beneficial ecosystems.
Due to Covid-19, our services promote current safety standar
Vegetables Summer/Fall 2020
Our Eco-friendly vegetables are available at retail prices from June to October.
UPCOMING WORKSHOPS: Covid-19 reopening procedures in place for your safety
Garlic Harvesting: Specific dates to be announced. Please feel free to contact us for any questions
Garlic Harvest/Braiding July 2020
$80.00 per Person
Planter boxes
$140
You will learn how to build planter boxes.
We provide all equipment and wood;
Garlic Planting
October 2020
$95
Superhero/Princess Garden Workshop
A Day At The Farm
$20 per child: Call/Text 250 241 4586 to book an appointment
- All day Saturday includes 1 potted plant, tractor-pulled cow train, and all other farm attractions.
- This is a hands-on class; we will have a planting demonstration and the children will have the privilege of taking a potted plant.
- At Janzen Garlic Acres we like to make gardening fun for everyone, what an exciting way to get kids learning how to grow food while in their favorite costume all happy and feeling energetic.
- Parents and guardians are always required to supervise their children.
- We encourage you to make sure they are dressed appropriately for the weather.
- Don't forget your farm boots.
- See you in the field!
About Us
Fred Janzen: Electrician turned farmer & Monde Janzen: Raft guide turned farmer
- Fred, Monde and their 5 children recently relocated from the Fraser valley where they farmed and lived on Fred's 5 acres family farm to the Okanagan valley. Fred lived on this farm since the age of 12. His parents Abraham Aldof and Elvira Janzen started the family farm in 1973; they raised Fred and his two sisters there. Fred's mother Elvira fondly known as Oma grew vegetables and did a lot of canning. She grew a lot of cabbages and made family favorite Borscht soup which she generously donated to her church family. She also graciously passed the family recipe and the love of canning to Monde; her daughter-in law.
- Monde is a former raft guide on the Zambezi river in Zambia is now a mother, wife, and farmer. Farming has always been part of her heritage but was realized when she migrated to Canada and saw farmland not being farmed. Her grandfather worked as a cow veterinarian for over 30 years travelling around Zambia and owned a cow farm in Sefula, Zambia. Her mother still grows mixed vegetables and corn which she supplies to local retailers. Her grandfather raised cows, chicken, and goats. He grew rice and cashew nuts in the Barotse flood plains of the Western Province, Zambia. She remembers going to milk cows with her grandfather, having strong black tea with fresh milk and joining her uncles to the valley during the day as they took the cows to graze fresh and drink water in the little streams.
- Monde began to grow vegetables on the family farm in 2012 using companion planting growing method. Friends and family were amazed at the taste and quality of the vegetables and encouraged her to sell them. Monde sold her vegetables to friends as U-Pick and at the farmers markets. In 2013, she went back to school and studied for an agriculture technology diploma at the University of the Fraser Valley (UFA). Her faith and strong sense of love for children is the drive behind her ongoing commitment to bring locally grown vegetables to the Okanagan.
- The family grew their first crop of Red Russian garlic in 2014, starting with 500 certified organic seed, on 1/2 an acre of the farm. As the garlic inventory increased in 2015, they planted more garlic in their front lawn. In 2016 and 2017 they took back 1/3 of the 3 acres of leased land from their rental farmer and planted more garlic. They also sold their first commercial crop in 2017 and supplied fresh, no spray pesticide free garlic to most farm stores in the Fraser valley. In 2018 they expanded their production and bought twice the land in Kelowna, British Columbia. Currently they have approximately 55,000 seeds planted and look forward to new opportunities in their new town.