Harvest time in the country

Check out these country stores in and around Lacombe where you can buy farm fresh food.

Billyco farm store and B&B

Billyco Junction is a family fruits and vegetable u pick with a summer wedding venue and year-round B&Bsuite 10 minutes southeast of Lacombe. 

Grown on the farm for your picking pleasure are strawberries, saskatoon and honeyberries, black currants, raspberries, cherries, rhubarb and apples along with an assortment of pick your own vegetables.  Their country farm store  carries on-farm made fruit pies, jams, jellies, honey, pickled goods and relishes.  

Of course, if you are staying in the Honeyberry Inn you can wake up to home-cooked breakfast, coffee and your pick of made-from-scratch jelly on toast from your perch on the sundeck – before a soothing bath in the suite’s deep soaker tub.

 

    

 

  

 

Greenhouse veg at Pik-n-Pak

Pik-n-Pak is a distributor for several of the region’s family-owned greenhouse growers. They sell wholesale to your local grocery stores but you can also visit their self-serve corner store year-round for fresh peppers, cucs and tomatoes. The Pik-n-Pak facility and store is located in Gull Lake, less than 15 minutes west of Lacombe along Hwy 12.

Local and farm fresh year-round

The country store at the Brown Eggs and Lamb farm is open year-round with a mission to connect consumers with locally grown and produced products. Shop their farm store – just south of Gull Lake – for their own brown eggs, of course, and Alberta lamb, plus home-ground, stone-milled flour(both organic and non-organic), yogurt, pickles, jams, honey, and goat’s milk. They also sell locally-raised meats,  including beef, free-range chickens and pork. In addition they have nice assortment of wool, & sheepskin products.  They stock goats milk in the summer, but have goats milk cheese (feta and chèvre) all year round. Well worth the drive!