Dear Summerland,
What an amazing seven years it’s been.
To say I’ve enjoyed my time in your beautiful valley would be a vast understatement. It’s been life changing. What a magnificent place.
I’ve eaten so many cherries, baked so many peach cobblers, sipped so much wine. I’ve gorged on apples, pears and plums. I’ve swum at enough beaches that I have a favourite (Sunoka.)
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Thank you all to the cake ladies of the Summerland Bakers Club for your relentless creativity through more than six years of potluck mayhem. From all things bacon to recipes from the 15 post-Soviet states, it didn’t matter what theme I gave you, you always blew me away.
Thank you to every Summerland business that hosted our little gang of food lovers. It was a joy to share a meal with you.
Thank you to the Ryga Festival and the Summerland Arts Council for giving me a place to share my own creative voice, and to everyone who has encouraged me as a writer and performer.
Thank you also to the librarians at the Summerland Library. I will never forget dancing in the library while DJ Caroline spun the records.
If another Summerlander could please pick up the mantel of yelling “I love the library!” at the library whenever you drive past, I would like that.
Thank you to all my wonderful colleagues at True Grain. What a glorious bunch of nerds we are.
No one loves sourdough and cheese like we do — no one.
Thank you Todd for bringing True Grain to Summerland and for being a true community leader. It’s been an honour to work for such a vibrant and important little company.
Summerland, you’ve been incredibly good to me. I’m off to grow cabbages, make sauerkraut and learn to sew. I shall write some poems along the way. I look forward to visiting often. See you at Rygafest 2020.
Peace, love and buttercream,
Sophia Jackson
100 Mile House
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