Douglas Lake Equipment (DLE) has teamed up with the Kamloops Regional Farmers' Market to inspire you to support local, shop small and buy BC.
Throughout this weekly feature, you'll not only get the opportunity to win monthly prizes, but you will also get to know the vendors who frequent this market.
We encourage you to read their stories, see the products they provide and enter to win a prize by Douglas Lake Equipment and the Kamloops Regional Farmers' Market.
Riversong Agriharmonics
All-natural is the name of Riversong Agriharmonics' game. Specializing in "natural beauty, natural cosmetics, naturally healthy, harmony through agriculture", Riversong Agriharmonics produces organically grown healing creams, bath salts and soaps that are available at Kamloops' Regional Farmers Market.
Riversong Agriharmonics "originally started as an organic culinary herb business and morphed into a product-line offering natural topically applied products for health and beauty", and is founded and led by Sandra O’Neill who has had a lifelong affair with all things “green”. A horticulturist who has worked in the agriculture industry for more than 30 years, she is currently studying to become a certified herbalist while her husband, Bob Schrader, supports the business and garden with his extensive sales background.
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My wife Sandra, comes from a family grounded in healthcare. Her father Dr. O'Neill was a local family practitioner and surgeon, and her Grand-father was the pharmacist in Kimberly, BC. One thing they all shared in common was their love of healing botanicals. This interest, led Sandra into a career as a plant specialist in the local ginseng industry for over 20 years, until 2004 when the industry became financially challenged due to the emergence of China grown North American Ginseng.
She started Riversong Agriharmonics, as a culinary herb business in 2004, dedicated to helping people understand and use organic culinary herbs in cuisine for health. Working in the fields commercially by hand led to the realization that many gardeners work very hard for their money and your hands tell the tale through skin damage. Sandra made a gardener's hand cream called "Handharmony", which was a catalyst to the creation of over 25 proven products today. Our product linage is appealing to those people looking for something that works effectively, that doesn't have all of the chemical additives, is hand-made locally, and is also available online from our web-based store: www.riversongagri.com
Products - tell us about your products and services with as much detail as you can provide.
Our products are hand-made using our organically home grown botanicals, or botanicals which we wild-harvest locally.
We offer a broad range of topically applied solutions which have offered hundreds of positive testimonials from our clients around the world. From our attendance at farmers markets in BC and Alberta over the last 17 years, we have used initial feed-back from our clients and Sandra's studies to become a herbalist to develop quality and excellence in proven phytonutrient rich products.
Why do you think it is important to support local, shop small & Buy BC?
Quality is available right here, typically high quality, and possibly lower cost.
Sponsored by Douglas Lake Equipment
Douglas Lake Equipment has supported the Kamloops community for over 20 years by being a proud supporter of various local companies and initiatives including the BC 4H Club, local stampedes and events, the Kamloops Blazers CHL team and is now proud to support the Kamloops Regional Farmers' Market.
Douglas Lake Equipment Kamloops is the leading Kubota dealer in the Thompson-Nicola region and has been providing quality equipment for over 20 years. DLE Kamloops offers Kubota’s full range of agricultural, turf and light construction equipment along with a wide range of used equipment.
With a multi-bay full-service facility along with fully equipped service trucks, DLE Kamloops can assist you with all of your equipment parts and repair needs - no matter what the brand.
Douglas Lake Equipment Kamloops is ready to help and provide you with the quality Kubota equipment you need to get the job done.
