Blogs by Don-O-Ray Farms

    Most vegetables need a recipe. The baby carrot doesn't. Snap one in half and you get a clean break, a bright orange centre, and a sweetness that lands closer to fruit than to a side dish. It's the rare vegetable that disappears out of the bag on the...

There's a stretch of an Okanagan July when everything seems to arrive at once, and the blackberries are the ones worth stopping for. Dark, heavy, and sweeter than anything that's ridden a truck across the country, a good blackberry turns an ordinary bowl of yogurt...

  There is a certain kind of shopper who sees a bin of small, firm, bumpy cucumbers and immediately starts counting jars. If that's you, this is your season. Fresh pickling cucumbers have arrived at Don-O-Ray Farms, and they're exactly what a crisp, snappy...

  A raspberry is a fragile little thing, and that's exactly the point. It's hollow, soft, built from a dozen tiny beads of fruit that collapse the second you bite down and flood everything with that bright, tart-sweet flavour summer is famous for. It's also the...

  Some fruit you save for a special occasion. Blueberries aren’t one of them — they’re the everyday handful you grab on the way out the door, the thing the kids empty before dinner, the berry that turns an ordinary bowl of yogurt into something worth slowing down...

  Fresh Cherries at Don-O-Ray Farms 📍 Location 3443 Benvoulin Road, Kelowna, BC 🍒 Product Fresh Okanagan Cherries 🗓️ Availability Seasonal (while supplies last) 🚗 Parking Free On-Site Parking 🥕 Other Produce Strawberries, Blueberries, Apricots, Vegetables &...

  There's a short list of vegetables that genuinely taste different when they're fresh — and peas are right at the top of it. The sweetness fades fast after picking, which is why the only place to get peas that actually taste like peas is at a real farm market....

  Picture the crackle of potatoes hitting hot oil. The golden edge of a roast tray pulled from the oven. The cloud of steam off a bowl of buttery mash. Every one of those moments starts with the same humble ingredient — and right now, the good stuff is waiting...

    Asparagus season is short, and that is exactly what makes it special. For a few weeks each year, fresh local BC asparagus shows up at our farm market at 3443 Benvoulin Road — crisp, tender, and full of the flavour that makes asparagus season worth...