A. Van Elswyk Farms
Location: Waterdown
Third and forth generation farm located in Waterdown specializing in homegrown vegetables and cut flowers. In spring we enjoy wholesaling vegetable trays and annual flowers. In the summer we grow our own produce to sell at local markets and at home. In the winter we finish out our year wholesaling cabbage, leeks, turnip and brussel sprouts. Instagram: @a.vanelswykfarms
Facebook: @A. Van Elswyk Farms
Brantview Apples & Cider
Location: St. George
Brantview Apples & Cider is an 8th generation family farm. 2021 brings our 200th harvest! We have Pick your Own and hand picked apples, a scratch bakery and an apple themed store front. We are also home of Howell Road Cider Company, which produces small batch craft cider.
Website: BrantViewapples.com
Instagram: @brantviewapples
Facebook: @Brantview Apples and Cider
Den Besten’s Trout Farm
Location: Langton
The Den Besten’s Trout Farm specializes in smoked trout products. We smoke our own trout using real wood. In addition to smoked trout, which comes in a variety of flavours, we also offer Garlic King homemade garlic butter at the Dundas Farmers’ Market.
Website: denbestentroutfarm.ca
Facebook: @The Den Besten Rainbow Trout Farm
Flat Rock Cellars and Shawn & Ed Brewing Co.
Locations: Jordan/Dundas
At Flat Rock Cellars we aim to make great wine and have fun while doing it! We start in the vineyards with low yields and progressive viticulture practices, then continue inside the winery to our sexy gravity-flow design and the latest in winemaking equipment. When you taste our wines with us we go above and beyond to deliver a truly personal win experience- without pretension and with infectious passion.
Shawn & Ed Brewing Company’s story is forged in friendship and started more than 25 years ago at the McMaster University Campus in Hamilton. Two friends and basketball teammates, Shawn Till and Ed Madronich, shared a dream to one day open a brewery. Together they restored the old Dundas Curling and Skating Rink into a state-of-the-art brewery with one goal, to craft a classic brew that everyone can enjoy with their a friends; a beer that’s Forged in Friendship.
Shawn & Ed Brewing Co. is the sister brewery of Flat Rock Cellars, Ed Madronich is also the owner of Flat Rock Cellars, he works closely with both the winery and brewery teams to craft the best wine and beer Ontario has to offer.
Websites: flatrockcellars.com / lagershed.com
Facebook: @Flat Rock Cellars/@Shawn & Ed Brewing company
Instagram: @flatrockcellars/@lagershed
Brantwood Farms
Location: Brantford
Since 1891 the Pate Family has lived and farmed in Brant County. Over time various aspects of the farm have changed over the decades our passion and dedication to agriculture remains the same. It is our goal to bring the best in home-grown and locally produced fruits, vegetables and goods to our community. From rhubarb to strawberries, apples, sweet corn and pumpkins we grow a variety of fruits and vegetables on our home farm. What we do not grow ourselves we source from local growers and producers in the area.
Website: brantwoodfarms.com
Facebook: @Brantwood Farms
Instagram: @brantwoodfarms
Fenwick Berry Farm
Location: Fenwick
Dave and Christine Klyn-Hesselink, with the help of our family, friends and employees, have been growing fruit in the Niagara region for 20 years. We are a first-generation family farm, striving to cultivate nutritious and delicious fruit through sustainable growing practices.
Website: fenwickberryfarm.ca
Instagram: @fenwickberryfarm
La Primavera Farms
Location: Dundas
La Primavera Farms is a third-generation farm, growing specialty cut flowers for markets, weddings, events and wholesale. The farm is nestled on the edge of a Carolinian forest, close to the town of Dundas and also produces field crops, beef and poultry. La Primavera is run by two generations of the Feddes family, with a third learning the trade as they grow up.
Website: laprimaverafarms.com
Facebook: @La Primavera Farms
Instagram: @la_primavera_farms
Plan B Organic Farm
Location: Flamborough
Certified organic farm located in Flamborough since 1997.
Website: planborganicfarms.ca
Instagram: @planborganicfarms
Facebook: @Plan B Organic Farms
Village Bakery
Location: Dundas
Totally handmade with time tested recipes. 22 years in business from cookies to homemade bread with pies and decadent desserts in between.
Facebook: @Village Bakery
Instagram: @villagebakry
Harrington Lane Farms and Gardens
Our Farmstead is nestled in the Niagara Escarpment in North Burlington where we; mother and daughter team; Krista and Lauren tend to a small flock of hens and ducks and raise heirloom small fruits and vegetables alongside cut flowers out in pasture. We specialize in pastured pork, heirloom tomatoes and farmhouse style preserves.
Website: www.harringtonlanefarms.ca
Facebook: @Harrington Lane Farms Village Shop
Instagram: @harringtonlane_villageshop
Hunters Maple Bush
Here at Hunters Maple Bush we are family owned and operated and have been in production in the same bush for over 50 years. We produce the highest quality maple syrup and confections. Everything proudly made by us!
Website: www.huntersmaplebush.ca
Instagram: @huntersmaplebush
Facebook: @Hunters Maple Bush
Cafe Domestique
Local Cafe serving small plates, beer, wine, cocktails and desserts.
Website: cafedomestique.com
Instagram: @Cafe Domestiique
Facebook: @Cafe Domestiique
Pierogi Me!
Pierogi Me! is a local one stop shop for gourmet pierogi. All homemade, handmade, with local ingredients. Egg, nut and peanut free. Vegan and gluten free pierogi are also available.
Website: www.pierogime.ca
Instagram: @pierogi_me
Facebook: @Pierogi Me
Rudy’s
Rudy’s was born from a desire to enjoy a refreshing treat without worrying about artificial flavours or colours. All natural vegan paletas and ice cream made with fruit, coconut milk and sweetened with organic cane sugar. Free from dairy, gluten and soy. It arose from a craving for handcrafted, pure fruit goodness. Only the best ingredients make it to the mix.
Website: www.rudyscantfail.com
Facebook: @Rudy’s
Instagram: @rudyspaletas
The Strudel Ladies
Crispy fruit strudels made with 100% locally grown fruit and love.
Instagram: @the strudelladies
Farm on the 14th
Fresh nutrient dense microgreens. Peas, sunflowers, radish, kale, broccoli, red cabbage, mustard, kohlrabi precut in 60gm and 140 gm containers. We love micogreens and want to show/share all their possibilities. We also grow non-certified organic Asian pears, black currents and aronia berries.
Website: www.farmonthe14th.ca
Instagram: @farmonthe14th
Facebook: @Farm on the 14th
Iris Backayard Sauces
Location: Burlington
We are a family run business that produces gourmet Caribbean sauces and rubs. They are all natural, with no preservatives, additives or flavourings. No MSG.
Website: www.irisbackayard.com
Instagram: @irisbackayardsauces
Jones Family Greens
Location: Eden Mills
Jones Family Greens grow at Edgewood Farm in Eden Mills, Ontario. Produce is grown in an ecological and sustainable manner to produce the most nutritious and flavourful food possible and has recently become Certified Naturally Grown. We pride ourselves in its varied mixed greens as well as a mix of seasonal produce.
Website: www.jonesfamilygreens.ca
Instagram: @jonesfamilygreens
Sheffield Acres
Location: Puslinch
We began with an idea while sitting on our back porch in our home in Sheffield for a retirement business. We are not sure exactly how and why we landed on a beekeeping and garlic, but we have been doing both now for over four years. Beekeeping has now become Bert’s passion and we are working towards having 50 hives
Website: www.sheffieldacres.ca
The Green Cabinet
Location: Lynden
The Green Cabinet is a small local farm, run by 16 year old Juliette, that supplies fresh produce. Although not certified organic, all produce is grown without the use of herbicides, pesticides or chemical fertilizers.
Instagram: @the_greencabinet