Our Story

Sustainable Island Dining

Jenni Michell, owner and operator of Harvest Rd. truly appreciates your patronage.

Harvest Rd. was built to provide an outlet for great food, community based entrepreneurship, local agriculture, ethical treatment of livestock, and to create a sustainable Vancouver Island dining experience.

To shorten the gap from field to fork; Harvest Rd. supports and promotes sustainable food production. Most of the produce served has been sourced from Michell’s Farm Market; the vast majority of which has been grown in the fields surrounding our restaurant. The meat we serve has been ethically raised by local farmers; free of antibiotics and added hormones, pasture fed in fields you can view while dining at Harvest Rd. While we primarily source our fruit and vegetables from Michell’s Farm, we are proud to support and work with other local growers on the peninsula including Sqaure Root Farm, Sunwing Farm, Kildara and Berryman Brothers.

Thank you for joining us.

Field to Fork. Fork to Field.

Harvest Rd. has been awarded the highest level of recognition by The Vancouver Island Green Business Certification Program, including endorsement by the Surfrider Foundation.  In 2017, we were recognized as the Greenest Restaurant on Vancouver Island.

We generate zero waste in the service of our meals.  We thank you for taking the time to read this message and for properly sorting after you’ve finished your meal.  We are required to serve our meals in single-use containers, but that doesn’t mean that we need to create waste.  Every container, tray, cup, lid, and piece of cutlery we use at Harvest Rd. is compostable.  All items associated in the service of our meals ultimately end up at an industrial compost site here on the farm.  The composted material is then used to provide nutrients to the fields in which our produce is grown and our meat is pastured.  We gladly accept the extra costs associated with this process so that we can participate in a sustainable cycle of food production and service.  We hope that you will lend a hand by sorting your discarded items into the appropriate receptacles and by limiting your requests for additional single-use products.