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34 LANGLEY tours


utmost importance,” she says. A few miles south of Eagle


Acres is MacInnes Farms, where owner Rod MacInnes has faced his share of challenges. Most recently, the Agricultural Land Commission attempted to shut him down for allowing movie crews to film on the 100-acre property. “We’ve been farming here


for 40 years. Leased it until ’86 then it came up for sale,” MacInnes says. “[The ALC] said we could carry on [filming] under non-farm use.” However, MacInnes has to come up with $300,000 in what he describes as a type of land damage deposit. “We might get it back, we might not.” What drew film crews to the land were the hybrid (non-fluff) cottonwoods planted about 20 years ago for Scott Paper Ltd. (now Kruger). Then regulations changed and cottonwoods didn’t qualify as a farm use anymore. “That’s how we got started, with the background of cottonwoods for the movie industry,” he notes. One ongoing film


production is When Calls the nfrom page 33


Heart and a 1900s street set is built on the site for it. This isn’t to say the


MacInnes family doesn’t farm the property, too. His daughter Melanie has


developed a six-acre orchard with 10 varieties of cider apples and plans to open a cidery in the old dairy barn. It currently houses a small brewery that uses hops and barley grown on site. Fall rye alternates as a cover crop for the barley. “The kids want to be


organic and the farm hasn’t been sprayed for 20 years,” MacInnes says. “Weeds are the biggest problem in barley.” People told MacInnes barley couldn’t be grown in the region, but he’s done it, though he would like to access varieties from other similarly wet climates like England and Scotland. Last year, the family also planted about six acres of hazelnuts resistant to Eastern Filbert Blight. Signs of the disease started to appear, so they sprayed the trees with copper sulphite. Additionally, Melanie has about 60 bee hives with 20 on the farm itself. She harvested


COUNTRY LIFE IN BC • DECEMBER 2018


Cottonwoods have put MacInnes Farm on the film location list, but Rod MacInnes explains the ALC doesn't agree with his efforts to diversify the land. Being a craft distiller, marketer and working mom isn't easy, but Rebekah Crowley, below, makes one heck of a good drink at Roots & Wings Distillery. RONDA PAYNE PHOTOS


about 2,000 pounds of honey in 2018. Walking around the 100


acres takes time and at certain points some of the family’s 200-odd chickens will catch up and follow along. North of MacInnes Farms


and south of Eagle Acres is Roots & Wings Distillery, a craft distillery run by Rebekah Crowley and boyfriend Rob Rindt. For a time, after the February 2017 opening, Crowley was one of the few female distillers in BC.


Where Roots & Wings


differs from other distilleries is in the farming aspect of the business. Rindt, son of the founders of Western Turf Farms, has been farming all his life. He grows the potatoes and some of the corn for Crowley’s creations. “Corn, we’ll have to buy


once we run out,” she explains. “But we’ve got tons of potatoes.”


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Wings was Vital Vodka. It’s since been joined by Jackknife Gin, a coffee-infused vodka (Double Vice) and Rebel, an unaged corn whiskey. Crowley sources some of the herbs for the gin in Delta. “One day I want to grow my


own botanicals,” she says. “I buy local as much as possible.” Rindt takes care of the farming tasks, while Crowley has her hands full with the distilling, administrative tasks and the couple’s new son, Lewis.


“I do small batches all the


time,” Crowley says of how she manages her time.


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