Gellatly Nut Farm

Gellatly Nut Farm Regional Park is 4 hectares of a working heritage farm. The park is a significant and unique site because of the heritage components as well as the recreational, archaeological, and educational values.

Features:

  • Heritage nut trees, some of which are unique to Canada
  • 485 feet of lake front
  • A heritage house
  • Log cabin
  • Various other heritage buildings and articles that have been collected by the Gellatly family over the years

Things To Do:

Guided Tours each weekend!
There are more kinds of nuts than you can imagine.  And you’ll learn all about them by taking a guided tour of the 100 year old orchard with a Regional Parks interpreter at the Gellatly Nut Farm Regional Park, just off Whitworth Road on the Westside.

The tours of the orchard, heritage buildings and museum are available from 11:00 am to 3:00 pm each Friday, Saturday and Sunday during June, July and August.

For more information please visit ‘Your Guide to Regional Parks’ or contact the EECO (Environmental Education Centre for the Okanagan) at 250-469-6140.

Come down to the farm and enjoy the fall harvest!  You can purchase nuts by the pound, or experience the farm firsthand by picking them yourself, with proceeds from the nut sales going to future park enhancement.  Varieties for sale include:  Walnuts, Chestnuts, Hazelnuts, Butternuts and more.  The park is open dawn to dusk and the Society staff an office on site from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm daily. 

Dogs, overnight camping, and open fires are not permitted.  Smoking is not permitted in any Regional District park.

History:

In the late 1800s the Gellatly family moved to the shore of Okanagan Lake and pioneered on the flats now known as Gellatly. The family became an important part of the community in the Central Okanagan, pioneering many of the farming practices that would influence the entire Okanagan valley.

The Gellatly Nut Farm was Canada's first commercial nut orchard and in the early 1900s the nut farm became known internationally for its hardy nut growing and the development of innovative nut breeding, finding new varieties of walnuts, heartnuts, filberts and chestnuts.

The Gellatly Nut Farm was designated a Class A Heritage site in the Central Okanagan Heritage Resource Inventory in 1984. The Regional District worked together with the Gellatly Nut Farm Society to acquire the park in 2002 and is now working towards further development.

The Gellatly Nut Farm Society is a non-profit organization dedicated to preserving the hundred year old orchard and trees in perpetuity. The Society is still accepting donations towards restoration and development of the park. For more information about the Gellatly Nut Farm Society please email the Society at gnfs@telus.net or by regular mail to #22 - 2475 Dobbin Road, Unit 702, Westbank, B.C. V4T 2E9.

Directions:

To get to the park follow Gellatly Road from Hwy 97 to Whitworth Road.

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