Slow Food Bike Tour - Yeah!

The start of the journey.

If you long to leaisurely bike meandering country paths, sample homemade pies, visit local dairy farms, see where cranberries come from, and even stroll through hazlenut groves that harken to scenes in Lord of the Rings, then you need to look no further than the Slow Food Vancouver cycle tours. We decided to go whole hog this year and do both tours of Agassiz and Chilliwack.

The tours are family friendly. I brought my own daughter both days, and we all enjoyed it. Here are some photos from our biking adventures en campagne.

Agassiz:

I’m going out to clean the pasture spring;
I’ll only stop to rake the leaves away
(And wait to watch the water clear, I may):
I sha’n’t be gone long.—You come too.*

It almost feels like flying.

Wondering what this is? A cow massager! No dairy barn worth its dirt would be complete without one.

The deep silent hazlenut wood seemed to stretch on forever.
This one is worth clicking to view larger!

Now this is what I call a greenhouse!

Rows of giant sunflowers.

Chillliwack:

You know you are in farmland when...

Nothing like that Chilliwack corn.

The wind at your back and the road under your pedals.

One of many lovely old barns along the way.

Edible flower cupcakes!

I’m going out to fetch the little calf
That’s standing by the mother. It’s so young,
It totters when she licks it with her tongue.
I sha’n’t be gone long.—You come too.*

* Above poetry from The Pasture by Robert Frost.

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