Local Harvest kicked off spring this year by attending the Elmira Maple Syrup Festival bright and early this past weekend. As usual, the festival was packed and the cars from out of town were lined up for miles. All had the same goal in mind:  to enjoy the festival’s feature delicacy of fresh and local maple syrup.
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Our latest Local Harvest video adventure took us out to Kolapore Springs Fish Hatchery in search of fresh, local trout. As you know from our blog post featuring this company, Kolapore Springs Fish Hatchery is nestled in the back woods of Kolapore, Ontario, a trail system on Grey Road 2 linked to the Bruce Trail. With cameras in hand, we met up with Sean Brady (owner) and Bruce Green, who showed us the art of cleaning, filleting and frying up their amazing trout.

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Check out week 4 as we follow the progress of Love Catering Co., a start-up, locally focused catering company based out of Toronto, ON. If you need to play catch up, check out week 1, week 2 and week 3 of this company’s “labour of love”: Read more »

It is funny how as a foodie, and a local foodie at that, I am always looking for the new place in town, excited to stumble upon my next favourite gem. I hardly ever take the time to step back and look around my own neighourhood to check out the places that I have walked by for years but never stopped in. Charbries located in Uptown Waterloo, ON, is one of those places. Until now! Charbries was on my ‘hit list’ of places featuring fresh local food and so in honour of my quest for all things local I couldn’t stay away any longer. Read more »

Now that rhubarb is in season, we just had to take another trip to our one of our favourite places, Thornbury Bakery Cafe. As you remember from our first post about this bakery, they specialize in amazing baked goods and we knew they would be creating some fabulous in season treats using fresh local rhubarb. Read more »

The adventure continues… here is week 3 of local harvest following a start-up, locally focused catering company based out of Toronto, ON, called Love Catering Co. If you need to catch up, check out week 1 and week 2 of this company’s “labour of love”: Read more »

If I were to look into statistics (that’s if there are any!) I would say the most common activity on a summer Saturday in Ontario is BBQing. Now that great farm fresh produce is starting to pop up from region to region, I look forward to my weekends cooking up a storm after long hikes in the valley with my dog Zurich. Read more »

If you missed our first post on Love Catering Co., don’t hesitate to catch up and read on as we follow this “start-up” locally-sourced, organic catering company on their adventure of creating a business and growing/sourcing all of their unique product throughout Ontario. Here is what they have to say about week 2 of working on their “labour of love”: Read more »

After our interview with Tim Barrie of Barrie Brothers Local Food Company, we met up with Michael Hodgson, Executive Chef of Wildcraft Grill Bar and The Bauer Kitchen, in Waterloo, ON. Mike gave us a glimpse into his creative culinary world and showed us some simple yet amazing recipes showcasing Tim’s fresh, local asparagus. Read more »

Welcome to Local Harvest TV! We are very excited to be launching what is only the beginning of an ongoing video web series promoting local farms, farmers, restaurants and chefs who are as passionate about local food as we are.

Our first Local Harvest episode features asparagus from Barrie Brothers Local Food Company beautifully transformed into 3 fresh, seasonal dishes by Michael Hodgson, Executive Chef of Wildcraft Grill Bar and The Bauer Kitchen. Read more »