Dellison Farm

Dellison Farm Dellison Farm is family run farm nestled in the Cowichan Valley. All of our beef is born and raised on our farm.

Very nice crop this year 👍👍
05/19/2026

Very nice crop this year 👍👍

04/24/2026

Copied and Pasted !! The Great Cowichan Reset

It is truly impressive how quickly the board can pivot from treating us like an annoying pop up ad they can just click away to acting like our long lost best friends the second they realize an election is coming up. On April 22 we just watched a room full of politicians suddenly develop a moral compass because they realized the crowd outside was not there for autographs . Watching them frantically scramble to retract those 4710 and 4632 zoning bylaws was like seeing a teenager try to hide a party mess seconds before their parents pull into the driveway.

The current financial comedy hour they are running would be hilarious if it was not our bank accounts providing the punchlines. The CVRD has decided to play the tax lottery with our wallets and they are using the word harmonization to describe driving our finances right into the ground. If you live in Cowichan Bay you won the grand prize of a massive double digit increase while people in Youbou are close behind with another huge jump.

Then there is the multi million dollar paperweight. The CVRD spent seven years and millions of dollars on long term planning only to realize they drove the whole project straight into a massive financial ditch. That is an insane amount of taxpayer money for a work creation project that is currently sitting in the dumpster and by all means hopefully remains there.

The CVRD is also leaning hard into the OOPS funds by blaming millions on uncontrollable costs like staff raises and debt as if the concept of keeping the lights on in the house is a total surprise every year. All this what we see is fiscal firefighting with a leaky garden hose at this point.

The CVRD is suddenly worried about aging pipes they ignored for decades which is like neglecting your house for twenty years and then acting shocked when the roof caves in while you are trying to sell it.

If the CVRD actually wants to fix this bloated organization they could start by trimming the redundant layers of management that exist just to create more meetings about having meetings. M

We are witnessing the Peter Principle in its full glory where every staff has been promoted just high enough up the ladder to become completely ineffective and incompetent.

The CVRD has become a collection of vague job descriptions and overlapping roles that do nothing but slow things down. We need a streamlined system where permits do not take a lifetime to process. It is a total gong show right now where a simple deck or a shed application can vanish into a bureaucratic black hole for endless months or years while you wait for a dozen different desk jockeys and overpaid pencil

Pushers to check a box or two on a piece of paper.

Realize that folks are much more likely to actually follow the rules if the process ot permits etc is fast and easy to understand and maneuver. When you make it a crazy endurance test that takes forever you just encourage people to bypass the system entirely.

So we need to cut the red tape and get back to basic service instead of funding a bureaucracy that just grows for the sake of growing.

We finally made enough noise here in this valley that they had to stop pretending we do not exist. It is a great start but do not think for a second the CVRD machine will not try to bring this nonsense and even more back once the heat dies down. We need to keep this same energy all the way to the voting booth because these people only listen when they are scared of losing their reserved parking spots. And we need to keep this up well beyond voting day!!!!

04/15/2026

Feel free to copy this and send it to CVRD directors.
Emails at the bottom of this message.

To the Directors of the Cowichan Valley Regional District,

I am writing on behalf of many residents who feel the same growing concern:

We want control of our land back.

We have worked hard, often for decades, to purchase our properties. We continue to pay significant taxes on that land year after year. Yet more and more, we are being told what we can and cannot do on property we own.

We are required to ask permission to build.
Permission to farm.
Permission to use our land in ways that were once considered normal in rural communities.

This is not what we signed up for.

We chose to live in the Cowichan Valley because of its rural character, its independence, and the ability to live in a way that reflects our values—whether that is growing our own food, raising animals, building for our families, or simply using our land responsibly.

What we are seeing now is a steady move away from that autonomy and toward increasing control, restriction, and oversight.

This is not about being unreasonable or refusing change.
This is about balance.

Property owners deserve:
• Respect for the investment they have made
• Clarity and fairness in rules
• The ability to use their land without excessive interference

The proposed bylaw goes too far in limiting that balance.

We are asking the Board to recognize that rural land is fundamentally different from urban development, and it should be treated that way. A one-size-fits-all approach does not reflect the realities of this community.

We are calling for:
• A pause in the current process
• A reassessment that truly reflects rural needs
• And a commitment to preserving the autonomy that defines this region

This is our land. We pay for it. We care for it. We live on it.

We are not asking for special treatment—
we are asking for reasonable autonomy over what we already own.

Respectfully,
[Your Name]

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33 so far, they are so happy when they can get away from mom 😂😂😂
04/06/2026

33 so far, they are so happy when they can get away from mom 😂😂😂

This is where the buggers belong !!!
12/21/2025

This is where the buggers belong !!!

10/01/2025

Hey everyone,

We have updated our prices. Hope to have more beef in stock later this fall.

Check out our new prices.

www.dellisonfarm.ca

They never leave 👍👍👍
08/27/2025

They never leave 👍👍👍

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4975 McLay Road
Duncan, BC
V9L6S1

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Monday 8am - 5pm
Tuesday 8am - 5pm
Wednesday 8am - 5pm
Thursday 8am - 5pm
Friday 8am - 5pm
Saturday 10am - 4pm
Sunday 10am - 4pm

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