Creating Self-Sufficiency with Climate Changes with Kimberley Allan

This week on The Rural Woman Podcast, you will get to meet Kimberley Allan. Kimberley owns Gather Farm & Kitchen in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island. Along with her partner, Dennis, and her daughters, they operate a 5 acre farm and business. Kimberley grew up in Vancouver and launched her gourmet food business, Kimberley’s Kitchen, in 2010. She moved to Vancouver Island a few years ago, with the goal of evolving her food business and farming. Now on their small farm, Kimberley and her family farm vegetables and fruit, specializing in garlic, tomatoes, squash and apples. They are vendors at the farmers' market and also operate their seasonal farm store. They host farm events, school groups, and on-farm cooking workshops where Kimberley shares her decades of professional cooking and baking experience to inspire her community to eat local and in-season food. Kimberley now hosts A Year on the Farm podcast where she shares her small farm experience and hosts interviews with experts in the field of small-scale farming. With weekly episodes, Kimberley interviews women, BIPOC farmers, and LGBTQ2S+ folk to offer a platform for their knowledge and provide a small-scale farming resource for those often under-represented and who face challenges in the agriculture industry. City girl turned Rural Woman Vanessa Wrubleski spent years and plenty of dollars trying to find the perfect garden planner that worked for her. She was fed up with spending money on garden planners that either didn’t cover all the bases or contained too much unnecessary “fluff”. So she decided to make her own.    Show Sponsor: Regardless of your experience level, planning out your garden is incredibly important. You do not need to be living rurally to grow your own food; you don't even need a yard! You just need to be Rural At Heart.   In addition to major planning space, The Rural at Heart Planner is a workbook that contains a number of exercises and oodles of tips to get you started on the right foot. What it doesn't contain is all the extra fluff of typical garden planners/workbooks.   This workbook contains: -Exercises -LOADS of planning and logbook space -Undated monthly calendars -Information on science based companion planting -AND SO MUCH MORE As Vanessa likes to say "Anyone, anywhere can grow food. You just have to be Rural At Heart."  Listeners of the Rural Woman Podcast can receive a Free gift with purchase (packet of seeds) when using the Promo code “RWPGift” at checkout. Head to the link in today’s show notes to grab your copy. For full show notes including links in today's show, head on over to WildRoseFarmer.com https://www.wildrosefarmer.com/129

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