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with a farming problem, a micro-mobility nut/ energy-monitoring engineer, and Kate’s first e-ride exclamation: “It’s like riding a broomstick!”
ot hills? Go get ‘em.
Why arrive at the Valley’s farms and award-winning wineries and cider-spots hot, bothered, and...well, thirsty? Take a ride on one of our electro-powered, hair-feathering machines and look your best arriving at the Valley’s finest view-scapes. Recommendation #1: The sprawling terrace at Averill Creek Vineyard. E-rides are transforming transportation. Our fleet of twin-tired trestle-trackers will catapult you past Trestle 66 near Skutz Falls along the Trans-Canada Trail to visit the world-renowned Kinsol Trestle near Shawnigan Lake. Double back to George and Evelyn’s picnic-stop, the Farm Table Inn. Or blast up the Valley Trail to Jake’s at the Lake in Lake Cowichan. After a bite, roll down the Valley Trail to Valley Cider on idyllic Mays Rd for a tasting flight, and yarn away the afternoon basking in Bruce’s ebullient verbosity. Or wind your way up-and-down, and down-and-up Mays Road and Richards Trail to take tea at the Westholme Tea Farm. Or take-in the organic authenticity of fresh local dairy specialties at Mark and Caroline Nagtegaal’s Promise
Ride an e-bike! Change the world!
We are organic-farming settlers in the unceded territories of the Hul’q’umi’num’ speaking people. Let us be your guide and conduit to Cowichan’s agri-eco-tourism good-life. Visit the barnyard animals! (bunnies, black sheep, Rosie the donkey and Licorice the pony). Linger for a picnic in the back (*bring your own blanket), and get to know your e-bike here on the farm-before you go out on the roads and trails! Our employees are the original charm-team. If you arrive ill-equipped, we’ll sort you out with a bike-helmet. We know the Cowichan. And we look forward to getting to know you.
Valley Farm and Creamery. Our e-bike rentals open access to the Cowichan’s tastiest attractions. Come smile with us! Ride a Broomstick! More ideas? Check out Tourism Cowichan’s map and bicycle tour
trip-planner at: https:// cowichangreencommunity. org/2022-cowichan-farmmap/ Broomstick Bicycles is the brain-child mash-up of three very important people—me, my brother and my wife. A cycle-touring house-husband
Unlock your inner child! Book a Broomstick today! www.broomstickebikes.ca
Rupert Koyote is a cycling and sustainabilitynut with a farming problem.
e-bike rentals in Cowichan
OPENING JULY 5
250 709 5495 3623 Gibbins Rd, Duncan
www.broomstickebikes.ca 67
