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Contact: Steve Venables and Kim Brind’Amour Address: Phone: Email: Website: |
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| Several varieties each of: Apples Apricots Cherries Peaches Pears Asian Pears Plums and Prunes Award-winning Fruit Wines |
Seasonally – June through November
Winery open daily 10-6 |
At the farm Capers (Vancouver) Kootenay Co-op (Nelson) Thrifty Foods Cottonwood Outdoor Market (Nelson) Several Restaurants |
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On the banks of the Similkameen River, near Cawston, BC, Steve Venables and Kim Brind’Amour, have created a beautiful place of refuge for wildlife, visitors, and for themselves. Ven’Amour Farm has been an established organic orchard for more than three decades now, and continues to produce a wide variety of sweet tree fruits. Their Forbidden Fruits Winery takes those organic fruits and delicately creates award-winning fruit and grape wines. Guests are invited to enjoy the wines and be inspired by Kim’s artwork. Wine tasting guests learn about Steve and Kim’s partnership with TLC with every delicious sip of wine. Steve and Kim have generously devoted all wine tasting proceeds to support TLC’s Conservation Partners Program.
Recognising the magic of the place they live in, Steve and Kim chose to set aside a large area of old growth cottonwood forest along the river, as well as some rocky outcroppings, and dry sage brush grassland habitat up the slopes above their orchard. Riparian (streamside) cottonwood habitat is an endangered ecosystem in the South Okanagan Similkameen region. Ven’Amour’s stewarded area is a spectacular example of some of the last such habitat remaining. Their beautiful section of cottonwoods and shrubs is intact and in excellent health, providing vital habitat for numerous threatened species of plant and wildlife.
The river valley, and protected grassland above the farm provide corridors for wildlife passing between Chopaka West Grassland Park, neighbour Mariposa Organic Farm, and the adjacent Similkameen River Pines property owned by TLC.
