Feature/Courts MOST FRUIT IS BOTILED affer it is harvested, but these kiwi fruit at Olafield Orchards are being grown in bottles. The fruit will be used for a new hye: Of kiwi fruit senneoos planned by Fort Langley distillers. Demand grows for Peninsula produce by Valorie Lennox The Review The fastest growing item on the Peninsula is demand for locally grown produce. “There’s way more demand than we’ve got supply,” says dis- trict horticulturist Brent Warmer. “The whole demand for fresh fruit is growing by leaps and bounds on the Peninsula,” he said. The population is increasing and the number of farms is decreasing, leading to the increased demand, he explained. The direct marketing association, which started with 20 farms three years ago, now involved 39 farms. By next year, Warmer expects 45 farms will be involved in direct marketing. “It’s good for our local produc- ers. The more they can sell direct out the farm door, the better return,” he said. Customers also benefit through fresher produce and lower prices. Heavy rain in June delayed crops but did not cause any losses, aside from a few fields of potatoes blackberries, which are also ripen- ing. : “They’re about 10 times the size of usual blackberries,” War- ner said. ‘I's good for our local producers. The more they can sell direct ouf the farm door, the better return’ in low-lying areas, Wamer said. “The rain slowed things down and we were about a week away from losing the strawberry crop — and then it quit raining. We really lucked out.” The resulting strawberry crop was great, Warner said. “Tt was an excellent year for Strawberries.” The Peninsula is now at the peak of the raspberry season. New this year are two fields of Kotata Wallet theff brings probation Lifting $100 from a wallet cost a Central Saanich man nine months of probation and 60 hours com- munity service work after he pleaded guilty to theft in Sidney Provincial Court Thursday. Cary Scott Anderson, 27, was sitting with a woman and her two children on the bus bench outside Saanich Peninsula Hospital at 2:40 p.m. May 16, crown counsel Edward Ormheim said. Bothered by Anderson’s ciga- rette smoke, the woman and her children left the bench and went | into the hospital, at which point the woman realized her wallet was missing. She returned to the bus bench, spotted her wallet in Anderson’s pouch and retrieved it but found $100 missing, Ormheim said. Anderson denied taking the money, attempted to hide in the hospital parking lot and then tried to run away but was stopped by a hospital security man. He admitted to the secunty man that he had taken money. Police 6570) 5 5 MIN. FROM BUTCHART GARDENS “SPECIALIZING IN SEAFOOD” As well as great steaks, chicken, lamb and other delicious food. arrived, searched Anderson and found the missing $100 in his pocket, Ormheim said. 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