Susan Snow, Snow Farms - Ladner, British Columbia

When asked to share how she would encourage someone to try organics for the first time, Susan Snow pauses. “Unlike people,” she says slowly, “organics are more about what’s not in the food than what is.” It’s hard to disagree with her, considering the pedigree. Susan Snow grew up with a vegetable garden in the BC interior, and her husband Harvie helped develop British Columbia’s first set of organic standards to define and protect the province’s growing organic food industry.

A few years later, Harvie was downsized and the family decided to start a new life as organic farmers. They purchased a small farm in Ladner and leased some additional land through the Delta Farmland & Wildlife Trust. 12 years later, Snow Farms is a certified-organic 80-acre farm growing cabbage, spinach, parsley, squash, celery and beets.

The Snow family is organic through and through. Susan says “In our years as organic farmers, we’ve met a lot of excellent people in the industry and we’re committed to supporting our friends” she says. In addition to their own produce, the Snow family orders organic lamb from Kamloops, pork from a friend in Sorrento and beef from a fellow producer in Ladner. “We try to make sure that everything we eat is organic, and comes from someone we know.”