Food and Farm Gate

In a region surrounded by nature and rich agricultural land, buying local is a way of life. Our neighbours are the farmers who grow and raise our food, chefs prepare it for us and family run stores sell it to us to cook up in our own kitchens.

For a full list of food and farm experiences, check out the award-winning culinary tourism program, Taste Real!

Here is a list of places that will get you started on local food:

All the flours at 1847 Stone Milling are certified organic and NON-GMO, ensuring the highest quality ingredients for your baking. The flours are also unfortified therefore not enriched with iron, folic acid or additives of any kind.

Canadian Grown, Canadian Milled, Canadian Proud!

Visit Best Baa Dairy in Fergus for quality, gourmet sheep milk products. Nutritious, delicious and local!!

Sip a taste of an award winning selection of fine wines at Cox Creek Cellars. A retail store, in the heart of the vineyard just south of Fergus, offers visitors a chance to sample wines and purchase their favourites.

One of Ontario's prettiest outdoor markets, the Elora Farmers' Market, can be found during the summer months in beautiful Bissell Park on the banks of the Grand River in Elora.

The Fieldstone Barn is Elora’s newest venue offering an exclusive 17-acre farm where elegance meets nature. Spend your day surrounded by breathtaking flower fields, lush gardens, and our historic 170-year-old stone barn. It makes the perfect backdrop for any occasion.

Gerries Garden Centre and Farm Market is a family business operating a farm store. It is your one stop shop in Elora for great food and products year-round! We have a Garden Centre in the spring carrying garden seeds, soils, fertilizers, bedding plants, hanging baskets, and much more! We also produce and retail fresh local fruit and produce while it’s in season. We carry quality cuts of grass-fed Angus beef that’s raised locally, drug free chicken, turkey and pork. We also carry local summer sausage, farm fresh eggs, local maple syrup, natural honey, jams and preserves.

A visit to Harmony Meadows Alpaca Farm in Belwood will give you the opportunity to meet and find out more about these curious animals. Stop by their shop for warm socks and sweaters made from the Alpaca yarn.

Jewels Under the Kilt is a fruit & nut orchard in Fergus, Ontario. This artisan nut maker has a roasting process that uses the last tapping of the finest dark maple syrup to preserve the nut during the roasting. 

Canadian-Made, Canadian-Sourced, fresh roasted, artisian nuts.

Located in Bissell Park, KIPPElora has built and runs a genuine wood oven – cooking up delicious pizza and other baked treats!

Middlebrook Farm Market sell fresh veggies, spring plants, frozen meats, eggs, and some prepared foods such as lasagna. 

Fall decor with mums, pumpkins and more. Sweet corn picked fresh daily when in season. Strawberries when in season.

Wicked Welly Farm and Apiary is a family-run farm in Belwood with a goal to farm using sustainable, environmentally friendly practices and provide healthy, local products to our community.

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