Gather Farm & Kitchen

03/20/2025

We are extremely grateful for this grant and look forward to feeding more folks in our community.

Congratulations to our 2025 Mary Forstbauer Grant recipient! ✨️🎉

Gather Farm and Kitchen, a vendor at the Denman Island Farmers’ Market, is working to create stronger and more diverse food systems in their community.

By using this grant to expand their cool storage capacity, they’ll be able to grow their winter CSA, focus more on growing nutrient-dense grains and pulses, and supply their local food bank with nutritious dietary staples.

We can’t wait to see the results of this project and learn more about how it’s benefitted the Denman community, year-round!

11/13/2024

Thursday is delivery day and we are adding some of your favourites to our website- granola, ice cream, preserves, and loads of vegetables in our Farm Box and Squash Box.

Visit www.gatherfarmandkitchen.com for more info and to order!

11/05/2024

We are delighted to be offering FREE delivery on Denman every Thursday. This week we have our Harvest Farm Box and Squash Box available. We will be adding baked goods in the coming weeks. Visit our website for more info-

Www.gatherfarmandkitchen.com

03/17/2023

I always look forward to the end of winter, but I really do enjoy this time where we pause. Food is canned and frozen, herbs and botanicals are dried and turned into body care and home care products. There’s a slowness to it all.

And just as spring approaches we wake up the growing muscles and fill seed trays with future food. We get better at this every year. We learn what works. What doesn’t. Where our strengths are. What is not worth it. Refine our craft.

To change and adapt is the ultimate skill in farming. And life. Letting go of what we expected or how things should be. Letting go of “should” altogether.

I love growing herbs. And as I pulled another box of dried lavender out for some special projects, I remembered that many years ago I would (sort of) joke that I would be a lavender farmer when I retired. The funny thing is, I have dozens of lavender plants now. Dozens of seedlings that I started from seed. And from cuttings. Because of course I chose something that’s not the easiest to start. But I love everything about lavender. Strong. Beautiful. Useful.

Lavender reminds me that it is okay to pause and the awakening for spring will come, as it always does. I won’t be retiring on my lavender farming. But I won’t ever be retiring anyways. I don’t wish to stop working. I love work.

We look to the new season with joy and curiosity. If 2022 was the year of the onion for us, what will this year be?

02/21/2023

It was definitely a tomato soup kind of day.

As we approach March, I start to ration the canned and frozen food. Wondering if we stored enough. So far, it looks like we have enough tomatoes! Between frozen and canned and dried, I think we will make it until the first 2023 tomatoes are picked.

We also have a good store of frozen fruit and tomatillos, dried herbs and flowers, dried beans, and canned fruit.

Time for some jammy peaches on homemade ice cream. Or enchiladas with salsa verde. Or vegetarian chilli with homegrown beans.

01/01/2023

Happy New Year! ✨✨✨

May 2023 be a year of planting seeds and beautiful food for you. We are so grateful to everyone here for your support and kindness in 2022.

We look forward to another year of farming and crafting food. Thanks for supporting local!

Beautiful food is in your future. 🌱

12/03/2022

Holiday order update- we have emailed everyone with your delivery/pick-up dates. Please message if you didn’t receive the email. Thanks everyone for supporting our farm and family in 2022.

Stay safe and warm, Comox Valley 💖

11/20/2022

Congratulations to for the recognition of our work with diversity, equity, inclusion, and reconciliation. I’m so proud of our market for the work we are doing and the ways we are moving forward to create an inclusive and accessible market. Thanks to our amazing General Manager, Twila (pictured here), and to the staff and volunteers.

Many thanks to 👏👏👏