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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