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Welcome to Sutcliffe Farms
We are open for asparagus 2025​
Opening Hours:
8 am - 6 pm
7 days a week
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For preorders or other questions please call:
Phone: 250 428 2734 ​
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About Sutcliffe Farms
Sutcliffe Farms is the largest Asparagus producer in British Columbia, Canada. Our asparagus brand is called "Kootenay Green" and we harvest over 100 acres of asparagus a year. Each piece is hand-picked ensuring the highest quality spear each and every time.
The farm soil type is classified as silty loam and the farm itself is situated on a rich, fertile, alluvial flood plain. Our asparagus is sub-irrigated by the Kootenay River located adjacent to our farm. Most asparagus is grown in well irrigated, sandy soil where nutrients are added yearly. However, our unique conditions produce a perfect asparagus spear using the natural native minerals to create a flavourful taste like no other.
Sutcliffe Farms was established in the 1950's and has produced asparagus in addition to other vegetables and field crops. During our 50 years of asparagus production we have been fortunate to establish a large network of people who enjoy our product. In fact, we sell half our yield at the farm gate. Call ahead to place your order to ensure availability. If you have further interest in seeing just how our farm operates, then please call 250.428.2734 to arrange a personalized tour. We are also Food Safe Canada GAP Certified.
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Seasonal pickers needed
Picking asparagus is the only time you get to lay down on the job. Each of our eight tractors pulls a low rise picking platform. Each of these platforms utilizes 5 pickers who lay on their stomachs just one foot above the ground. The pickers snap off the asparagus spears at ground level and then transfer the spears into lugs beside them. We also have a mechanized grading line and a large sorting crew. The asparagus season lasts approximately 6 weeks.
Asparagus is a seasonal crop which traditionally starts the last week of April and extends through the middle of June. Asparagus grows depending on ground temperature, and can grow as much as 1 inch per hour. During ideal growing conditions, when the day and overnight temperatures do not fluctuate too much, the fields may need to be picked at least twice a day.
There is free onsite accommodation available to all employees. There is a 36 person co-ed, bunk house, as well as extensive kitchen facilities, washing machines, bathrooms, showers, picnic tables, a fire pit, dry camping facilities and a rec room. There is high speed Internet and satellite TV.
