Your Guide to Farms, Food & Country Roads in SDG Counties & Cornwall
Welcome to SDG Counties and Cornwall
Farms that have been in families for generations. Opportunities to pick your own berries or pet an alpaca. Farmers’ markets where you can chat with cheesemakers, beekeepers, and other makers and sample their products. Wineries overlooking rolling vineyards, and yurts where you can sleep under the stars.
Tucked between the Ontario–Quebec border and the St. Lawrence River, the unspoiled landscapes of the United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry (SDG Counties) offer endless opportunities to relax and recharge. Extend your stay in the City of Cornwall, where you can enjoy farm-to-table meals and local craft beers.
Meet the Farmers & Producers
Agriculture has shaped SDG Counties for generations, and the region remains one of Eastern Ontario's most productive farming areas. Today, local farmers and producers continue to cultivate the land while welcoming visitors to experience rural life firsthand. From dairy farms and maple syrup producers to family-run markets and specialty food makers, these businesses offer memorable opportunities to learn, explore and support local. A visit to a farm is a chance to reconnect with nature, discover where your food comes from and enjoy authentic experiences rooted in the region's agricultural heritage.
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Farm-to-Table Experiences
If you can’t wait to taste the bounty of SDG Counties and Cornwall, you’re in luck! Check out these farms, restaurants and sugarbushes, where local ingredients hold pride of place.
- Birchwood Restaurant and Bar: This fine-dining spot in Cornwall uses fresh greens from a local vertical farm in its salads.
- Ferme Butte & Bine Farm: This regenerative organic farm in Williamstown includes a farm café and bakery, where you can enjoy French pastries and bread, along with other dishes made with local products.
- Fraser Creek Pizza Farm: You didn’t know that pizzas grew on farms? The family that runs this Summerstown spot grows and raises as many of the ingredients as they can for their wood-fired pizzas, which are served outdoors.
- La Belle Sorelle: This Alexandria restaurant and take-home meals company incorporates lots of local products into its from-scratch dishes.
- Sheep’s Head Bistro: Book a table at this Glen Walter restaurant to enjoy a seasonally changing menu, with many dishes featuring local ingredients.
- Tauro Restaurant: This high-end Cornwall restaurant sources many of its ingredients locally, including steaks and vegetables.
Culinary Events
- A Glengarry Affair: This annual event at Stonehouse Vineyard in Lochiel showcases ingredients from local farms.
- Savour East Ontario: This organization maintains a list of farm events across SDG, including Savour the Field.
Maple Syrup Season
In March and April, sugar maple forests in SDG counties become hives of activity. Watch sap being made, savour maple taffy or pancakes with maple syrup, or enjoy family fun like horse-drawn wagon rides.
Producers, farm stores and roadside stands
- Cornerstone Organics: In the shop at this Long Sault farm, you can buy vegetables, herbal tea, garlic, honey and more. The farm also runs meditation workshops and other events in a yurt.
- Fauxmagerie Zengarry: Canada’s first artisanal plant-based fromagerie (French for cheesemaker), Fauxmagerie Zengarry in Alexandria makes vegan cheese and emphasizes sustainability.
- Glengarry Fine Cheese: This award-winning producer in Lancaster makes European-style cheeses, which you can taste and buy in a well-stocked shop (where you’ll also find lots of other local products).
- Munroes Mills Flower Co.: Buy premade bouquets or individual flowers (so you can make your own arrangements) at this Apple Hill farmstand.
- Rijke’s Produce Farm: Buy fresh produce in the farm shop and pick your own flowers.
- Paperboat Farms: In season, buy organic garlic from the farm stand in Newington or at local markets.
- Smirlholm Farms: This family-run apiary in Morewood makes natural, unpasteurized wildflower honey from sustainably managed hives.
- Springfield Farm: At this farm’s shop in Apple Hill, you’ll find honey, herbs, flour, vegetables and more.
- Stewart’s Honey: You can buy organic raw wildflower honey, cream honey and bee pollen from the farm gate stand in Green Valley (call ahead); products are also available in local stores.
- Upper Canada Creamery: This organic dairy in Iroquois makes small-batch milk, cream, yogurt, cheese, cheese curds and ice cream using milk from their herd of grass-fed cows.
Specialty food shops
- The Glengarry Market: This Alexandria shop sells locally produced foods and gifts. Its Market Café features items made with local ingredients, and choices include vegan and gluten-free options.
Pick-Your-Own & Seasonal Harvests
From berry patches and flower fields to farm events and fresh local produce, SDG Counties and Cornwall offer plenty of opportunities to experience life on the farm.
Wineries, Cideries & Craft Producers
At these home-grown wineries and breweries, it’s easy to relax with a glass of wine overlooking a vineyard or to toast your friends with a local craft beer.
Animal Encounters & Family-Friendly Farms
Most children love the chance to learn about animals, as well as pet and feed them. But animal encounters aren’t only for families! Adults can channel their inner child with activities such as goat yoga and horseback riding at farms in SDG Counties and Cornwall.
- Alpagas Apple Hill Alpacas: Learn all about these gentle creatures on a farm tour in Apple Hill.
- Caprassion Acres: At this Martintown farm, you can book a tour, a baby goat snuggling session or goat yoga, as well as visit the pigs and feed the chickens.
- Countryside Adventures: In addition to a year-round petting zoo, Countryside Adventures in Moose Creek offers a food truck, hiking and snowshoeing trails, a skate trail, a tubing hill, rental cabins on a fishing pond, and more.
- Vanderlaand The Barnyard Zoo: At this family attraction in Winchester Springs, you can see (and often pet) all sorts of animals, from guinea pigs and rabbits to emus and llamas. You can also sign up to help Farmer Ruth with chores or take a private tour.
Rural Festivals & Country Fairs/Events
Agriculture has long played an important role in SDG Counties, and local fairs continue to bring communities together to celebrate that heritage. Expect livestock shows, homecraft exhibits, local food, live entertainment, and traditions passed down through generations.
- Apples and Art Studio Tour
- Avonmore Fair
- Chesterville Fair
- Cornwall Ribfest
- Fall Fest Extravaganza
- Glengarry Highland Games
- Glengarry Renaissance Festival
- Iroquois Apple Festival
- Maxville Fair
- Meet Me on Main Street: summer celebrations throughout SDG Counties, including communities in North Dundas.
- South Mountain Fair
- Stormont County Fair
- Williamstown Fair
- Winchester Dairyfest
Explore the Great Outdoors
Leave the rush of the city behind by exploring SDG Counties on foot, or by bike, kayak or canoe.
Guided Tours and Self-Driving Routes
Hop into your car, onto a shuttle bus or even into a boat to visit SDG Counties and Cornwall’s agritourism sites.
- Mohawk Journeys: Based in Akwesasne, this company offers pontoon-boat tours of the St. Lawrence River and island picnics where you can watch ships along the St. Lawrence Seaway. You can arrange to be picked up at Marina 200 in Cornwall.
- Savour East Ontario: This organization has developed a variety of seasonal driving tours that connect you to local agritourism businesses.
- SDG self-driving itineraries: Many of these routes focus on agritourism sites, such as orchards and flower farms.
- See-Way More: This tour company offers a variety of one-day itineraries in Cornwall, Akwesasne and SDG Counties, including visits to wineries, craft breweries and flower farms. Shuttles and private tours are also available.
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Suggested day trip for farms & flavours
This itinerary offers a perfect introduction to the farms, flavours and rural experiences that define the region.
Farm Stays
- Anastasia’s Domain: This forest cabin is located on a 45-acre property next to a large forest. You can taste and buy honey from the owners’ hives.
- Ferme Butte & Bine Farm: Book a room or suite in an 1812 farmhouse at this property in Williamstown, and enjoy fresh, local meals from the farm café.
- Fraser Creek Pizza Farm: When staying in this two-bedroom unit, you can enjoy fresh pizzas from the farm’s oven (in season).
- Laura’s BnB: This luxurious home on an Alexandria farm features a hot tub, a sauna and groomed trails for walking, snowshoeing and cross-country skiing.
- Springfield Farm: At this organic farm in Apple Hill, you can stay overnight in a yurt, enjoy a continental breakfast and check out the farm’s disc golf course.
- Upper Canada Village: Check into the Guest House or Montgomery House and wake up surrounded by a living history village that transports you to rural life in the 1860s.
To find farms, wineries and other rural locations where you can park your RV overnight, try searching the Harvest Hosts and Terego websites (memberships required).
Other Ways to Stay
- Accommodation choices in SDG Counties include campgrounds, bed and breakfasts, motels, and vacation rentals.
- Cornwall offers a full range of accommodations, including hotels, motels, inns, bed and breakfasts, campgrounds, and vacation rentals.
- You can search for vacation rentals on sites such as Airbnb and VRBO.
For more information, visit our partner websites: SDG Counties, and Cornwall Tourism.
