Happy Hills Farm

08/14/2026

Forever in love with sunny summer nights ✨️🌄

08/06/2026

Life is this good ✨️✌️

07/21/2026

Friends, as usual, you are amazing! We are fundraising to support West Kootenay youth in competitive basketball and with ONE day left to join us in this initiative we are SO close to our goal.

The Rooted Table Collective has partnered with Two Rivers Meats to support the JHawks Basketball League.

Two Rivers is a premium source for amazing BC meats and they are graciously donating 15% of all meat box sales to JHawks. Rooted Table is throwing in a 15% off coupon to every box sold.

There are 8 delicious boxes to choose from.
Rosslanders can pickup in Rossland at the Rooted Table. Pickup is August 6th. If you are away that day, we can hold your box for you.

WE HAVE 8 BOXES LEFT TO SELL TO REACH OUR GOAL AND 24 HOURS TO DO IT!

All proceeds will support lower income families with Fall tournament expenses, and we all know how expensive life is and how beneficial fundraisers like this are for kids in our community.

If you are buying meat anyways, why not divert some of what you are already spending to support youth in sport?

Two Rivers meats are high quality and we know you will be thrilled with your purchase.

Thank you for helping us reach our goal today, I know we can do it!!!

You can also help by tagging someone here that you think might be keen!

HERE IS THE LINK WITH ALL INFO AND ORDER FORM:

https://tworiversmeats.ca/wordpress/fundraiser/j-hawks/

Thank you everyone!!! ❤️❤️❤️

Stock up your freezer with local meats from Two Rivers with 15% of sales supporting competitive basketball players who travel for tournament play!

07/03/2026

🏀 I NEED YOUR HELP 🏀

To support youth in competitive basketball in the West Kootenays!

Do you + your family eat meat?
Then you are already spending this money, and by purchasing some of THIS high quality meat, you can support this fundraiser easily!

Hear me out.

My family had two kids in competitive sport this Spring, and we traveled to 6 different cities in 2 months for tournaments. We are a lower income family and this was HARD.

So, I took it upon myself to start a fundraiser that has the chance to support all of the families like us who are struggling to give our kids these amazing opportunities.

Two Rivers Meats is an amazing, high quality meat producer and butcher who supplies our store regularly. They have curated 10 different meat boxes and are donating 15% of all sales to to support our youth by providing financial aid for tournament expenses.

Furthermore, our store Rooted Table is providing a 15% off coupon for our shop to every meat box sold!

So if you eat meat, this is a no brainer!
These meat products are superior quality AND you get to support youth in basketball!

It's a big win for everyone!!!

So, how can you help?

🏀 Order your meat boxes NOW through July 22
🏀 LIKE this post
🏀 TAG someone in the comments
🏀 SHARE this post

AND - please bring your friends and family on board! Anyone local to Castlegar / Trail / Rossland can buy these meat boxes. You can even share boxes with friends or family!

The link with all the information is in my bio and / or in the comments below.

We are trying to sell 50 boxes!
Will you help us meet our goal?

Thank you in advance.
This fundraiser is very special, I am volunteering to do all of the legwork to make this happen, and most importantly -

It's about making sure our kids can get on the court and stay on the court 🏀💥!

07/01/2026

❤️ HEART + HUSTLE ⚽️

Super choked writing this, and Im not sure why other than I am a super sappy mama 😅

Cedar finished out his Spring soccer season this past weekend with our local Eye of the Storm tournament, bringing home a star of the 1st game & the Heart + Hustle award for the whole tourney!!

I finallllllyyyy got to watch this kid play (this spring Cedar and Mica's tournaments overlapped and our family split up to attend them - yep, all three!) and you better believe I played hooky from work all weekend to be his biggest cheerleader!

I can't begin to explain how much I love watching this kid play soccer. He is so skilled.
Tough. Agile. Quick-footed. Fast.
And full of SO much joy.

No matter what, this kid doesn't give up.
No matter what, he holds his head high.

He is a challenge to go up against, and a role model of sportsmanship.

A team player, a caring opponent, and a considerate human out on that field.

Cedars team had a challenging year.
At one point he came to me in tears, wanting to quit. Even the best in sport face a gruelling mental challenge to rise up in the face of loss. And did he ever. He collected himself. Squared off with his frustrations, and finished his season on a high note.

In his last game of the season he scored his first goal I was able to see this season.

To see his sweet little face shine that day makes the whole ordeal of having three kids in sports, with both Dan and I coaching, and two kids traveling (Kelowna, Kamloops, Creston, Nelson, Kimberly and Calgary was our spring itinerary!), and managing two teams. . . . so absolutely worth it.

I feel so grateful that our kids have these opportunities to participate in sports.

I grew up as an athlete, and I can't think of any better way to spend a childhood.

From mentorship by amazing coaches, to new friends who become besties, to finding yourself, to all of the ways you grow as a human through sport... I am honestly choked watching Cedar grow through sport. He is such a beautiful, fun, smart little man, and I love him to the moon.

Here's hoping Fall basketball and soccer don't overlap as much, because I can't wait to watch him play again!! ⚽️💥

06/23/2026

Flashback to the good ol days, circa 2008 🤎☀️

06/11/2026

People keep asking me what I'm growing this year, have I found a new farm, how are the gardens going....

And the answer?
Nothing.
No I didn't.
I have no gardens.

I am realizing how much I miss my hands in the dirt, everyday, connecting to the earth with such depth and meaning.

But this is grief.
Not grief over losing someone close to me.
Grief from losing a dream I poured 8 years of my life into, building with my hands, day in day out. Bringing joy to the lives of others through food.

Prior to starting the farm in 2017, we converted the entire backyard into growing space. Every inch we could. Ten 4'x16' raised beds. Small greenhouse. Tiered gardens on every slope. Chicken coop. Huge compost system. We were featured in the first ever Hills to Valley Garden Tour.

Three years into farming, we ripped it all out and gave the yard back to the kids. 🤷‍♀️

So now, there are no gardens.

But! One other thing we did in 2015 was build a Food is Free Garden at the top of our property, along the road. Filled it with all kinds of food for people to harvest for free whenever they want.

Although this garden hasn't been tended to in 9 years, it is still a perennial herb bed proudly boasting sage, oregano, lavender, yarrow and comfrey.

So I harvested herb bundles and gifted them to a bunch of unsuspecting people and reminded myself just how good it feels to share life with people.

So that's my message for today.

Never forget how simple things in life, like sharing something you care about with good people, can make the day brighter and your heart fuller 🤎

Photo 1: herb harvest
Video: the remnants of the Food is Free Garden
Photo 2: our backyard during the Hills to Valley Garden Tour in 2015

06/08/2026

The world keeps asking us what we are working toward.

Today felt more like a reminder to notice where I already am 🤎

06/07/2026

🏀 Had a blast with this kid yesterday!

Mica was generously gifted tickets for us to go watch the vs college basketball game in Kelowna last night, from Stephen over at - the new basketball league Mica joined.

We drove there and back in 12 hours, grabbed a quick bite to eat, watched this wicked game, and hit snow ❄️ on the drive home!

It was an amazing day, and I just love the bond me and this kid are building through ball. I love watching him play and improve, and our drives together to practices, games and tourneys are filled with great talks and tons of laughs.

JHawks have been an awesome new addition to Mica's life. Im grateful to this league, his new friends, the time he gets on the court, and of course to his coaches and league organizers Nelson, Kevin + Stephen.

Next weekend we are Calgary bound for the last Spring tournament and it's going to be a blast!

🏀💥💖

05/15/2026

This kid, wow do I love him.
He is off to Kamloops for his second tournament of the year, the 2nd I will miss.

I love love LOVE to watch him play.

He is skilled, determined, passionate, and positive. He hits the field, tries his absolute best and then some, he is a team player and never gives up.

It's hard to miss his games, but nonetheless, he is a rockstar on that pitch and I am so stoked for the weekend he has ahead of him. Go Cedar! 🤎