How to Find a Farm in Ontario

I just got a note from Ontario Farm Fresh to let me know about their farm locator website, a handy online search engine to help people find pick-your-own fruit and vegetable outlets as well as farmers' markets by location and type of produce. It occurs to me that there are several of these sites. Here are some others:

• Harvest Ontario offers a drop-down menu that allows you to scout agritourism outings by location, crop, activity or attraction type (for example, "pick-your-own", "organic producer" or "farmers' market"). This site is associated with the free magazine of the same name handed out in Home Hardware and its affliate stores, which seems to be designed to promote canning products, but which is quite useful nonetheless. (It usually has some canning product coupons, if I recall correctly).


• One I've found especially useful is Ontario Farm Visit, which lets you check boxes including "organic", "farm gate" and "pick your own", and match them with particular fruits and vegetables – as well as Hallowe'en pumpkins and Christmas trees.


• PickYourOwn.org has a wealth of information for all of North America, including crop availability schedules, preserving tips, harvest festivals and how to find those ever-popular (it seems) hay bale mazes. I've linked to the Ontario section of the site.

If you know of others, or have comments about these, please let me know!