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WoodGrain Farm + Short Season Seeds

With a focus on organic growing and self-sufficiency, Jonathan started the latest farming iteration on this historic Kispiox Valley farmstead in 2009, growing vegetables for the fledgling Hazelton Farmers’ Market along with small scale grain and lamb. Joined by Jolene and her passion for seed saving in 2015, the farm soon diversified beyond market gardening with the emergence of Short Season Seeds – a seed company focused on regionally adapted seeds for northern growers. WoodGrain Farm continued to serve the Hazeltons and Smithers as a cornerstone organic vegetable grower at the farmers’ markets until 2022, first with the help of farmhands and then through the WoodGrain Farmer Co-operative with fellow farmers Willow and Meira. In 2023, the Co-operative went on hiatus and the vegetable focus shifted to growing for our retail partners, and bulk orders of storage veg.

In the off season, Jolene and Jonathan lend their varied experience to other projects through consulting and contract work.

Over the past decade at WoodGrain Farm we’ve had innumerable extra pairs of hands come by, sometimes for a few days, and other times for a few years. This old farmstead continues to evolve with the people who are drawn here, by fate or design, and who lend their ideas and energies to it.

To all the friends, family, farm helpers, wwoofers, travelling cyclists and others who have left your mark, thank-you, and come back any time.