Posted : September 4, 2021
Our blog is chock full of great ideas for fun things to see and do in York Durham and Headwaters. We are always adding new content and updating old posts, but sometimes you might stumble upon something from our vault. If this article has inspired you to hit the road, be sure to double-check that the featured stops in this post are still welcoming visitors.
It’s time to start planning your next Great Taste of Ontario adventure! With road trip ideas, routes and stories, we’ll help you fall in love with Ontario again, and again.
Each season, you can download one of over 80 passports from across the province to help guide your planning and inspire. Then, when you’re ready, take the time to safely visit the growers and makers who make Ontario so special. Each time you check-in, you’ll be one step closer to redeeming some sweet Ontario-made prizes – while supporting communities across Ontario too!
Each time you check-in to a location, you’re on your way to some sweet rewards! Check-ins can be redeemed for some sweet Ontario-made swag or donated to charity. Which is also pretty sweet.
YDH PASSPORT PARTNERS
Market + Co.
Shop for the most incredible ingredients and mouth-watering flavours, embrace Ontario’s extraordinary local food scene, interact with a guest chef cooking up a storm in our demonstration kitchen called Kitchen & Co. Dine in at one of our incredible restaurants. At Market & Co., we’re coming together to celebrate the community and delicious food.
Pine Farms Orchard
Pine Farms has been family owned and operated since 1942. This apple orchard, cafe, bake shop & gift shop is open year-round, offering a beautiful farm experience on the Oak Ridges Moraine.
Gallucci Winery
Situated just 30 minutes north of downtown Toronto, you will find an unlikely gem of a winery located in Stouffville Ontario. A family owned and run business, Gallucci Winery offers a variety of wines for every wine lovers’ palate. Full bodied reds, easy drinking whites and exceptional ice wine.
Market Brewing Co.
Ontario craft brewery located on Leslie Street in Newmarket. Hand crafted beers. Industrial, rustic taproom, bottle shop and event space.
King Cole Ducks Limited
For almost 70 years and four generations, our family’s passion has been solely focused on producing duck products of the highest quality using time-honoured, natural farming practices. Today, we celebrate the fact that King Cole is the brand of choice by chefs and consumers in our backyard and around the world, wherever fine quality duck products are enjoyed.
GoodLot Farmstead Brewing Co.
Welcome to GoodLot Farmstead Brewing. We are the first farm-to-barrel brewery in the Greenbelt – Ontario’s finest agricultural region. We make fresh, super-local, estate-quality ales & lagers, using ingredients raised on our own farm.
Heartwood Farm & Cidery
Heartwood Farm & Cidery is a regenerative farm with fresh air, good soil, healthy plants and animals, and a lively kitchen table. You’re invited to the conversation!
Heatherlea Farm Shoppe
Heatherlea’s mission is to raise and craft the highest quality artisan meats, meals, snacks and treats using clean ingredients and local products. Our farm is also a fresh butcher, food shoppe and cafe in Caledon, Ontario.
Adamo Estate Winery
Adamo Estate Winery is a small-batch boutique winery in the Hockley Valley. Starting with the best fruit from our estate, as well as from some of the top growers in Ontario, our fruit speaks for itself and our terroir-driven wines. Experience a tasting, tour or meal on our beautiful grounds, or in our stunning open dining room.
Landman Gardens and Bakery
Landman Gardens and Bakery, situated in lush and rolling Grand Valley, is committed to growing and producing the best quality food for you and your family, including baked goods, meats, preserves and prepared foods.
Spirit Tree Estate Cidery
Spirit Tree Estate Cidery is surrounded by apple orchards, warmed by the fire in our wood-burning oven, and excited by the possibilities that hand-crafted, artisinal cider, decadent baked goods & fine food products will bring to our local friends and foodies alike.
The Second Wedge Brewing Co.
The Uxbridge Wedge is the second of the four wedges of the Oak Ridges Moraine, and the one we love best, because we live, work and play here. Our focus is on crafting and sharing ales full of flavour and character, heart and soul, inspired by the world’s finest small breweries.
PORT Restaurant
PORT was founded in 2008 by restaurateur Todd Morgan – Products are sourced seasonally and ethically to create a unique #TasteofPlace that showcases and promotes our amazing backyard.
Slabtown Cider Company
Slabtown is a family-owned and operated cidery and orchard. Located on the Oak Ridges Moraine just south of Uxbridge and surrounded by forest, trails and rolling fields. We have been working very hard to revitalize over 90 acres of historic fields into one of Canada’s largest collections of unique heritage heirloom apple cider varieties.
Bistro ‘67
Bistro ‘67 offers guests a memorable field-to-fork dining experience within Durham College’s award-winning W. Galen Weston Centre for Food (CFF), where community, local agriculture and learning come together.
For more local agri-tourism providers visit the YDH Virtual Market
YDH Virtual Market
