Cheryl Tarves, a co-owner of the Similkameen Apiaries has been at the market for 30 years and agreed that it was a good season, thanks to the local buyers.
“The last few years, we’ve started around the third week of April, a little tiny bit earlier than we usually do.
“We definitely had a lot of tourists coming through this year, which was awesome to see people travelling locally.
“It has this reputation because here at the Penticton Farmers’ Market you have to be the person with your hands in the soil…for me I have to be the one in the flour and in the dough.
“We are here in October, often people think that in the end of September that we’re closed, but we’re not.