Cookbook Club: The Farmer's Daughter Bakes

Step onto the farm with author Kelsey Siemens and bake through the seasons with 'The Farmer's Daughter Bakes'.

You can take the girl out of the farm, but can’t take the farm life out of the girl. After studying geographical bio-geoscience at university and starting her food blog, The Farmer’s Daughter, author Kelsey Siemens quickly returned home to where it all started.

Growing up on a beautiful, family-run farm nestled in the Fraser Valley of British Columbia (near the the Canada-US border), Kelsey began with collecting eggs and weeding the garden, as most children of farmers do. She learned to eat with the seasons as she worked along with her parents to maintain the 20 acres of 10,000 dwarf apple trees, 50 varieties of pumpkins, squash, Saskatoon berries, rhubarb, and more that make up Willow View Farms.

Willow View Farms is about an hour from where we live in downtown Vancouver, and my family and I have been lucky enough to witness the hustle and bustle and joy of apple picking season for the last 5 years. The kids love walking through the orchard and picking their own apples, petting the goa…