Boundary Garlic is located on the Caron Ranch in
the Boundary area of British Columbia, between the Okanagan Valley and
the Kootenays. The ranch land has been in the Caron family for more
than a century and is still important to the extended Caron family.
Going to the ranch for horseback riding and to help with the haying
are childhood memories all the Caron cousins share.
Xavier Caron, Henry's father, was born on the ranch and raised cattle
all his life. Henry returned about twenty years ago to help out and
gradually took over running the farm. Garlic is now replacing cattle
as the main product.
The land that has been certified
organic includes fields that were part of a Chinese market garden
about a hundred years ago, in the Boundary area's mining heyday. Seed
potatoes grown here attracted buyers from the Okanagan, a two-day buggy
ride away (now only an hour's drive by car).
