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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.

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