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Rootdown Organic Farm is a certified organic farm in Pemberton, BC. Currently the girls have about 5 acres of mixed vegetables in production.

We grow over 25 varieties of field and hoop-house vegetables delivered to customers through our CSA Harvest Box program and available in grocery stores in nearby communities. Rootdown Organic Farm is a small-scale, organic farm situated in the Pemberton Meadows, British Columbia. Started in 2009, the farm is owned and operated by Sarah and Simone who met in 2008 at the UBC Farm at the University of British Columbia in the Sowing Seeds Apprenticeship program; helped along by an additional small but mighty crew of hardworking folks each year - some seasonal, some year round. Surrounded by mountains, the farm is blessed with a flat, fertile valley bottom, bordered on both sides by glacial rivers. Rootdown markets their products in Pemberton and Whistler to restaurants and grocery stores, and through their CSA Harvest Box program.

10/22/2026

Farming is beautiful, hard, fun, engaging and essential to all of our lives - after all, no farms, no farmers, no food.

Guess what is also essential to our lives in a free democracy? Voting! Use it or lose it, as they say.

It's no doubt that farming in BC is facing massive challenges at the moment, and many of those come from climate change.

So your friendly local farmers ask you to keep that in mind when you head to the polls this weekend - if you support local farming, support a party that also does, and that has really policy that will support farmers in BC!

Voter turnout in the 2024 Provincial Election was abysmally low - only 58.45% 😳. So put it on your calendar. Saturday, Oct. 24th. Set an alarm. Better yet, make a plan to go with a friend or someone from your household. Bring your kids! Expose them to the democratic process young.

Don't let others speak for you simply because you didn't turn up.

10/14/2026

ORDER NOW for our FIRST of two fall veggies pick ups!

Lots of amazing varietyy for fresh eating and for storage.

Carrots, beets, squash, cabbage, greens, onions, garlic, and MORE!

Bulk amounts available!

Pick up number 1: Order window from Tuesday, Oct 13th at 5 PM until Saturday, Oct 17th at midnight.
Pick up on Tuesday, Oct. 20th from 4-6pm in either Pemberton or Whistler (details when you check out).

Pick up number 2: Order window from Tuesday, Oct 27th at 5 PM until Saturday, Oct 31st at midnight.
Pick up on Tuesday, Nov 3rd from 4-5:30pm in either Pemberton or Whistler (details when you check out).

No need to be a member - our online store is open to anyone who can make the Pick up windows!

Free Pick up for orders over $100. $5 Pick up fee for orders under $100.

10/09/2026

Thank you to Il Caminetto Whistler for the amazing evening last night!

We all got cleaned up, and went out for an incredible night of food as we celebrate "the beginning of the end" of the season. We have our first full time 2026 crew member finishing her season this week, and we wanted to celebrate everyone's hard work and all the amazing veggies we've grown as a team this year. It was a night to remember!

The service and food was top notch (as to be expected), and the company was great too.

It was a pleasure to also be joined by Farmer Simone's family, TJ and Marisol on this occasion!

Thanks to this awesome group of humans who has worked so hard this season, cared for each other, showed up through the good times and bad, and generally made the farm a very productive place and pleasure to be a part of this year ❤️🙌🌟

10/06/2026

📢📢 Rootdown is doing a couple of one-off Bulk Order vegetable pick ups soon!

On Tuesday October 20th, and Tuesday November 3rd, you will be able to pick up pre-orders at either the Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre (Squamish Lil'wat Cultural Centre in Whistler) in Whistler, or from the farm at 7717 Pemberton Meadows Rd.

Our online store (link in bio) will open for pre-orders the Wednesday before each pick up date, and close the Saturday before at midnight.

So mark your calendars, and get ready for some good eating! There will be larger amounts available for those that want them, but smaller amounts also available for those who can't/don't want to store the larger amounts of veg.

Lots of carrots, beets, onions, garlic (plus SEED GARLIC!), winter squash, celeriac, winter greens (salad, spinach, kale, and more), leeks, hakurei, daikon, and more! Plus, at the second pick up, we will also be offering potatoes from Helmer's Organic Farm - yum 😋

🌟🌟 Please note - no walk in sales will be available - all orders must be placed in the ordering window before each pick up! 🌟🌟

10/05/2026

Hey folks! Come join me, Farmer Ariella, plus Stewardship Pemberton Society , FarmFolk CityFolk , and Farmer Michael to talk about seeds, carrot breeding and seed production, variety trials, and see some seed cleaning equipment in action (maybe even try it out!).

If you saved seed on your farm or garden you can also bring it by and get help using the specialized equipment to get cleaner seed!

It'll be a good time - there will be carrots to taste test 🥕🥕! From 3-6 at the Pemberton Farmers' Market🌱 this upcoming Friday, the 9th! You don't have to register or stay for the whole workshop. Just pop on by, say hi, and learn some things about seeds 😉

10/04/2026

It's that time of year again, where we at Rootdown are harvesting and selecting the best carrots as part of the CANOVI communal orange storage carrot breeding project!

What does that mean, you ask? Well for a few years now a group of organic farmers across Canada have been working with CANOVI (Canadian Organic Vegetable Improvement) project in partnership with SeedChange / Sème l’avenir , FarmFolk CityFolk, and UBC Farm to breed an open pollinated orange storage carrot that works well in organic systems and rivals the available hybrid seeds on the market.

And so farmers (like us!) are mailed carrot seed in the spring developed by farmers/seed breeders working at UBC Farm; the farmers grow that seed out on their farm over the growing season, then harvest the carrots in the fall, select the best roots from their harvest (based on colour, shape, and flavour). These 50 or so "best of the best" are then shipped or otherwise given to UBC Farm, where they are then grown out in a greenhouse overwinter, to produce an early spring seed crop, which gets mailed out to farmers, and the cycle repeats - until a commercially viable, stable variety is reached - which is getting closer each year.

This is a great way for us busy farmers to contribute to seed security and developing new market-ready open pollinated seed varieties, but without having to take on all the work and logistics of growing a full seed crop (which can feel like a lot when you're already growing many, many vegetable crops!)

So in the photos above, you can see the best of the harvest (photo 1), the ones that second best (photo 2), and the b-grade, or obviously didn't make the cut for seed production (photo 3). The carrots in photo 1 will be further gone through and tested for taste before the best 50 will be sent to UBC Farm for seed production for next year.

If you're curious and want to know more (and taste test some carrots!), you can come by the Pemberton Farmers Market next Friday, October 9th from 3-6 to check out the workshop we will be a part of, talking more about this process. More details to come early in the week on that front!
Thanks Stewardship Pemberton Society for putting this on!

10/02/2026

Moody radicchio harvest pic on this moody harvest morning.

It's that time of year when we begin to say goodbye to our summer friends, like tomatoes, cucumbers and summer squash, and say hello to our stalwart autumn favourites - radicchio, celeriac, leeks, winter squash, cabbage, hakureo turnips and more 🙌

These fall and winter staples offer excellent flavour and nutrition, though sometimes require creativity or learning in order to know how best to cook or eat them. But the rewards are immense, and some of the BEST eating is this time of year, in our opinions.

And so in regards to the soundtrack choice for this post - yes, we all need joy - let radicchio and the other fall favourites be a source of yours!

09/27/2026

It's a September pepper treat! Very limited supplies of spicy Thai chili's, flavorful poblano's, and specialty shish*to's available on our Restaurant Fresh Sheet this week only!

Get yours before they're gone 😉

09/22/2026

Happy first day official day of Autumn 🍂 everyone!

While it's felt like fall for a solid couple weeks now - with cooler nights and mornings, and heavier dew greeting us as we start the day - now it is official.

These photos snapped this morning.

First light filtering through the trees onto something storage crops.

And beds prepped for next year, with a sea of storage carrots to the right of the frame to feed ya'll well into the winter months 🥕🥕

We take storage crops pretty seriously around here, and grow a decent amount of them - and now they are all really coming into their own. Cabbage, beets, onions of many types, garlic, leeks, daikon, celeriac, hakurei, radicchio, fennel, winter squash and pumpkins, and, of course - carrots!

So get ready to eat well Pemberton and Whistler - the fall is the best eating yet!

Were you a CSA member last year? Stay tuned to your inbox for Bulk Veggie Buying options for later in the fall - details coming soon!

09/16/2026

Some scenes from the end of onion harvest and the beginning of squash harvest today!

Plus, sunflowers, because, why not? Planted for beauty and pollinators, they are shining bright and lifting everyone's spirits around the farm these days ✨️

Address

8425 Pemberton Meadows Road
Pemberton, BC
V0N2L0

Website

https://rootdown-organic-farm.localline.ca/

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