Daytripping May-June 2021 Issue

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goes on the outskirts of St. Thomas until
it intersects with Hwy. #3. You’ll find a
Picard’s Peanuts at that intersection,
The Turkey Shoppe just north of it,
Talbotville Berry Farm just a bit north
again and then between
the intersections of
highways #401 and
#402, you’ll find Thomas
Brothers Farm Market.
Canadale Nurseries is
also along that stretch
as is the road to Sparta
and various streets
that would take you
into St. Thomas where
you would find Briwood Farm Market,
Spicer’s Bakery and their delicious
chocolate dip donuts, Howe’s Farm
Market, Horton Farmers’ Market on
certain days, and why not stop in to
Railway City Brewing Co. while you’re
close by? That’s a day trip all by itself!
The farm market section in the
middle of Daytripping has become one
of our favourite parts of the magazine.
Another area we fell in love with
starts with both Zekveld’s Garden
Market and Reid’s Farm Market in
Reeces Corners and a goat cheese place
in Wyoming (Great Lakes Goat Dairy)
before going toward Forest where Alton
Farms Estate Winery and Stonepicker
Brewing Co. are a few fields apart with
Williamson’s Country Store in nearby
Forest. You can also hit a weekly farm
market depending on the day you pick.
Another trip begins in Dashwood with
turkey and more at Hayter’s Farm and
pork at The Whole Pig, and these stops
are close to the Garlic Box and Metzgers
Meats in Hensall. Jerry Rader Market
isn’t far away at all in Zurich and the
Best Little Pork Shoppe, Shakespeare
Photo by Elaine Ballantyne
Bayfield Berry Farm is close as well,
and there are more craft breweries and
wineries you’ll pass from almost any
direction.
On a tour that’s closer to home for
Lisa and I, we might on any given day
be stopping into Crunican Orchards in
Arva, McCully’s Hill Farm Market and
The Chocolate Factory and a few other
shops in St. Marys, Quehl’s Restaurant
in Tavistock which offers a lot of takeout
frozen meals, The Best Little Pork
Shoppe in Shakespeare, Oak Grove
Cheese, Bright Cheese & Butter, and
Gunn’s Hill Artisan Cheese just south
of Woodstock. We love cheese, can
you tell, and Oxford County even has a
Cheese Trail.
Munro Honey & Meadery, Alvinston
There are just too many great food
places to mention. We’ve also noticed
how some places take more pride in
their local foods than some others, or
maybe are just better at giving farmers
the credit for all they do. For example,
if you have dinner at Eddington’s of
Exeter, which is truly exceptional, the
menu is very good at stating that the
beef came from this shop and the eggs
came from that farm and so on and
so on. I don’t know about you, but
that gives me a lot more confidence in
what I’m eating. If you’re asking me,
Crunican Orchards, north of London
which you’re not but I’m offering it up,
the restaurants in Port Dover are extra
proud about promoting the fresh Lake
Erie perch and pickerel and any of the
restaurants in that lakeside town are
among the best at making it.
I have to confess that I am getting
hungry writing this article. I’m also
thinking right now that I miss Pine
River Cheese that was on Highway 21
just south of Kincardine. Support local
farmers folks! We don’t need to see any
more landmarks like that disappear!
Then of course there’s Essex County,
where it’s warmer earlier in the year
and fruit stands are a dime a dozen.
It’s worth a trip down there just to
get out of the house and buy the first
tomatoes of the season. If you don’t like
The Chocolate Factory, St. Marys
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Stonepicker Brewing Co., Forest
asparagus, you should, because it’s the
first vegetable that’s harvested in the
season in a sure sign that spring is here.
I could go on for hours. We haven’t
even covered Norfolk County, which
dubbs itself “Ontario’s Garden.” Eat
well folks! These are our farmers and
we need to keep them in business, so
spoil yourselves and go out of your way
to find all the outstanding food that SW
Ontario has to offer.
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