Okanagan residents are lucky to have an abundance of easily accessible, locally grown food.

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Our most recent installment of Meet Your Farmer is Eastwood Organic Orchard and you can see a video feature on Eastwood orchard at kelownacapnews.com.

Lorena and Jim Wood started farming in East Kelowna in 1995 and made the leap to organic practices ten years later.

The decision was prompted by not wanting their young son, and their grandchildren to be near toxic chemicals.

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She added that inspections are intense and rigorous.

While she is proud to produce healthy food, what she loves the most about farming is simply being outside, physical and social.

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