Events

Our Backhand tees are back in stock in all sizes! You can mail-order, pick up at the brewery, or order for pickup at any of our farmers markets along with your beer. Order directly through our online shop or by calling or emailing us at the brewery! As with all our swag (yes, we have lots of those cosy hoodies too!) these shirts are organic cotton. They are fair trade made and printed in a Vancouver shop that focuses on social justice and training. You can wear this tee proudly for years, then compost it!

We are back home after the Bush Creek Wildfire, and open for sales our regular hours! You can find us at the brewery from Weds - Sat 9-4:30. We are also at the following farmers markets with loads of freshly filled growlers: Wednesday 2-5pm All Organic Market at Askews Uptown, Salmon Arm Saturday 8-12Sorrento Village Farmers Market Saturday 8:30-12:30Kamloops Regional Farmers Market Plus you can pre-order for pickup in Vernon on Thursdays! Thank you all for your concern and support.

$1 from every growler and pipsqueak sold from August 28 to the end of September will go directly to this fund to support Indigenous Food Infrastructure that was destroyed during the Bush Creek Wildfire. From the GoFundMe website: Amidst the collective and compounding grief associated with the catastrophic wildfire burning over 40,000 hectares of Secwepemc foodlands, members of the Secwepemc Chapter of the Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty (WGIFS) are responding to the crisis in a network of community caring and sharing. Critical food-related infrastructure and equipment, including community freezers of salmon, bison, and elk meat was lost when...

High-tech solutions to climate chaos and the resulting famines are all the rage. But do they make any sense? Vertical "farming", algae and yeast production, globalized production and distribution chains all depend on high-tech management and endless energy supplies, not to mention distribution mechanisms that can withstand tornadoes and other weather disruption. In other words, more of what we already have that is proven not to work.

There are options, though they are dismissed by the proponents of disutoptian technology as simply "arcadian fantasies". Apparently only continuing on the road we currently travel is realistic, however awful the outcome. These options involve reducing our footprint on the world. Reducing energy use, eating seasonally, learning to grow food in smaller plots (from tiny urban balcony gardens or rooftops on up), reducing our dependence on globally supplied staple crops, and saving our farmland and water for food growing instead of housing/highways/golf courses.

But these options demand a paradigm shift towards keeping food, housing and water out of the profit economy. The resulting loss of profit for the few keeps the idea from being discussed at all. But we have to. Please read on, and please keep this discussion going.