Explore these simple and fun ways to cut down your footprint in Revelstoke. 

Forage and Fill is a new business in Revelstoke featuring refills on household and hygiene products as well as environmentally friendly and low-waste products. Their fun downtown space also offers a well-curated selection of consignment clothing and a great array of locally made goods. 

The Loft offers a selection of vintage garments, sure to please any fashionista. 

If you're looking for a bargain, we have two thrift stores: the Bargain Basement at the Royal Canadian Legion and the Revelstoke Hospital Auxiliary Society Thrift Store.

Mountain Goodness Natural Foods offers refills on household and hygiene products as well as local food and healthy grocery options. 

There are a number of different local craftspeople making incredible creations for recycled products. Head to the farmers markets to check out some of the unique items these creative minds produce right here in Revelstoke. 

Big Eddy Glass Works lets you make your own keepsake sandblasted highball glass out of a recycled wine bottle. 

Kat Cadegan repurposes vintage jewellery and creates new designs to suit more modern tastes. It's a great way to honour family heirlooms but to adapt them to suit your tastes. 

The Green Bag Company is a local producer that uses recycled pieces of shade sails to create multipurpose bags for laundry, groceries, plants, or whatever works!

loveMaking Designs carries a number of recycled products from different designers:

Little Bird Blue makes jewelry out of recycled items;

Kilner Goods creates handbags and wallets from upcyled leather couches and jackets;

Rio Branner uses wallpaper to make earrings and leather jackets to make watches;

Bellaklava creates toques from recycled wool sweaters;

Innertubular Designs makes earrings and necklaces from bike inner tubes.

Revelstoke is working towards developing accessible tourism products, services and activities. We want to ensure every person can participate in our experiences. The Revelstoke Visitor Information Centre is wheelchair accessible and is complete with a universal bathroom. Many Provincial Parks offer features such as adaptive recreation equipment, trail systems and universal-design considerations. 

Our nearby national parks offer nature experiences for everyone during the snow-free season, which is generally May to October. During the spring and winter, the Rogers Pass Discovery Centre is the only facility in Mount Revelstoke and Glacier National Parks that meets barrier-free standards.

The Revelstoke Adaptive Sports Program aims to increase accessibility and learning opportunities for those with physical and cognitive disabilities. They have equipment ready for you to use including:

-Mountain Man FFS Dual Ski

-Unique Bi-Ski

-Superlite Monoski Outriggers

-Superlite Standup Outriggers

-Yetti All Mountain Racer

In Revelstoke, we are lucky to have several farmers and artisan makers who supply our community with fresh, locally grown food. Many restaurants in town showcase ‘farm-to-table’ menus, reducing their environmental impact and giving you tastier, healthier food. Fresh vegetables, locally processed meat, and even fresh cut flowers are some of what’s available from producers in Revelstoke.

Established in 2010, Terra Firma Farms is a small-scale, certified organic farm specializing in garden transplant and heirloom vegetables. They supply Revelstoke with a huge range of fresh produce, eggs, and meat.  Woods Goods provides the community with specialty vegetable varieties you can grow at home but their main department is flower farming. Barry from BA Sausages learned all about meat processing from his father when he was 12 years old. Now he supplies almost every pub in town with their burger patties! His meat is sourced locally and processed right here in Revelstoke. First Light Farm is a small farm in the Big Eddy, and specializes in baby mustard greens, tomatoes, and a variety of vegetables as the season progresses. Revelstoke is even home to 'seed-to-bottle' hot sauce makers, Stoke The Fire. They grow over 40 varieties of rare and exotic peppers to put in their delicious sauces. Bird Tree Urban Farm can be found at the LFI Revelstoke Farmers Market every Saturday. Their main property is located in 'South Side' which makes for convenient on-farm pick-ups.

Many restaurants in town have taken advantage of the variety of locally grown produce. Dose Coffee uses regional produce for its entire menu. Here you can taste meat from BA Sausages. No matter which menu item you choose, if it has meat in it, you know it’s from Barry. Even the flowers on the table are from Woods Goods and you can grab a bouquet for yourself. The Quartermaster Eatery pairs Fraser Valley duck and BC sturgeon with greens and house salad from First Light Farms. Terra Firma’s Kitchen is a true farm-to-table restaurant, sourcing ingredients right from Terra Firma Farms and like-minded farmers nearby. Freshly picked organic vegetables and eggs are delivered to the restaurant almost every day. Waste is kept to a minimum with all restaurant compost going back to the farm to fuel the next season's crops.  

If you’d rather cook yourself, you can get a range of local ingredients in downtown Revelstoke. The farmer’s market is every Saturday where you can fill your basket with all kinds of local goodies. Le Marche stocks local meat products and a variety of regional produce.

The Revelstoke bottle depot accepts beverage containers, end-of-life electronics, beer containers, small appliances and paint. They offer $0.10 (10 cents) for aluminum bottles and cans.

In Revelstoke, our abundance of wildlife can pose a challenge to implementing recycling and composting practices. Food smells attract wildlife (such as bears) into town, teaching them that humans = food. This is the opposite of what we want!  

The Columbia Shuswap Regional District (CSRD) opened the new composting facility at the local landfill in fall 2022. There is a food waste collection bin available at the Revelstoke Landfill for self-haulers. Businesses, residents, and visitors can drop off food waste for a minimum charge of $10 or $120/tonne. In residential areas, for personal drop off or pick up, there are also pick up options available.

The Community Connections Food Bank distributes groceries and meals to households experiencing food insecurity. Located at 416 2nd St West, The Food Bank gratefully accepts items that are new, unopened, and within the expiry date. 

Non-perishable food donations can be brought anytime and be dropped in the donation box in front of the building. 

Perishable food donations can be brought during business hours from Monday – Thursday, 9:00am-3:00pm, and Fridays from 10:00am-12:00pm. Ring doorbell for service. 

As of 2022, the Food Bank has recovered more than 750,000 lbs of food, which would have otherwise ended up in the landfill.

POV: You’re about to check out of your accommodation in Revelstoke 

You’ve just finished your amazing holiday in Revelstoke and you're packing your things getting ready to check out. Suddenly, you remember the unopened crackers in the kitchenette that you grabbed for a cheese board. Or maybe a can of soup you bought thinking you’d need a quick, hot meal after a day on the slopes. You don’t have room in your bag or don’t want to get flagged at airport security. The solution? Donate it to the Revelstoke Food Bank! Did you know?

More than 50% of all food produced in Canada is wasted.

Canadians create over 50 million tonnes of food waste every year.

Food waste in Canada is sent to some of its 10,000 landfills. It contributes to 56.5 million tonnes of the greenhouse gas emissions that Canada releases every year.

Not only will donating to the Revelstoke Food Bank reduce food waste and environmental impacts, it will help support community members in need.

Aside from our incredible dining options Revelstoke has to offer, sometimes there is nothing better than a home cooked meal when you are traveling. It can also be more cost effective to purchase food items and make your own food! While we love our savvy guests, what we don't love is the food waste that is often left behind in hotel rooms and air bnb’s. Our local Community Connections Food Bank is always accepting donations and makes an incredible $10 lunch each Thursday with ingredients that are about to expire. These folks don't let anything go to waste!