Farm History

Danielle and alicia guichon are 5th generation farmers

Coming from a long line of Farmers, our family still owns and operates Felix Farms in Delta, which originated in 1879, growing over 1,200 acres of vegetables and grain! Our roots run deep here in Ladner and we are passionately carrying on the family tradition. Our current Backroads location used to run under the name of ‘Deltaport Farms’, which was a farm stand that our family ran in the 1980s (see an original picture below of our Grandma Lorraine in the old Deltaport Farms!) However, as things got busier on the farm, our family made the decision to lease the stand out to others throughout the 1990s and was eventually closed for good and left empty for over 15 years. In 2014 Danielle and Alicia’s ideas for a new market came to fruition. The transformation photo below shows how hard work, creativity and a new vision bloomed into what Backroads Market is today.  

A picture of our Mom and Gradma Margaret at one of our first fundraisers when we were still operating out of a pick up truck on the side of the road

Where it all began, selling corn out of our dads pick up truck

From Bottom Left to Right:

An old picture at Deltaport Farms, Our Grandpa Jack and Dad Peter visiting at our Roadside Stand, Siblings, our Great Aunt Lorraine and Grandpa Jack, Our Grandma Lorraine inside the old Deltaport Farms

The transformation from a deserted deltaport farms location, to what backroads market looks like today