Fresh Valley Farms is a certified organic, regenerative livestock farm on Mountain View Road near Armstrong, BC. Steve Meggait and Annelise Grube-Cavers run it. They raise 100% grass-fed and grass-finished beef, heritage pork, pasture-raised chicken, and eggs.
A century on the same land
The farm began in 1923, when Bill Meggait bought the original 154 acres for $6,000. Four generations of the Meggait family have worked this land since, and many of them still live on the farm today.
Steve is the fourth generation to farm here. Annelise is a third-generation farmer herself. Their two young children are already learning alongside them as the fifth.
How they farm
The land has been farmed without synthetic fertilizers or pesticides for decades. In 2020 the farm finished its move to full organic certification through the BC Certified Organic Program (NOOA certificate 04-346). All feed brought onto the farm is certified organic and grown locally.
The cattle eat only grass. Steve moves them onto fresh strips of pasture with portable fencing, then rests each field so it can grow back. Pigs root in the woods, and chickens scratch in open pasture. Manure goes straight back onto the land to feed the soil.
Solar panels on the farm help power the fridges, freezers, and daily work.
More than a farm
Steve is a founding director of the Small Scale Meat Producers Association. Annelise serves as the Organic Sector Representative on the BC Agriculture Council. The farm hosts Open Farm Days, and guests can stay at its historic Mountain View Guesthouse.
Fresh Valley sells online, with pickup in Vernon, Kelowna, Salmon Arm, Kamloops, Penticton, Chase, and Nelson, and on the farm in Armstrong.
What we carry
We carry Fresh Valley Farms certified organic eggs, a mixed meat bundle, and three bone broths: chicken, beef, and ramen. The meat bundle is the simplest way to get pasture-raised meat into your freezer without ordering a whole animal.
