Cheese & Farm Tour

Seven-hour guided tour always sells out CuratedbyRebeccaCrosgrey

Begin your Great Canadian Cheese Festival experience one day early next year with a cheese and farm tour of Bay of Quite Region.

This year, the seven-hour guided tour on the Friday before the Festival visited a progressive dairy farm, a pioneering water-buffalo dairy farm, a goat farm, a museum of agricultural heritage and an award-winning cheese producer.

Jack Rushnell, past president of Hastings County Museum of Agriculture Heritage, now known as Farmtown Park, was the knowledgeable guide. A visit to the Farmtown cheese exhibit was on the itinerary, to show the origin of cheesemaking when the industry dominated agriculture in Ontario for over 100 years.

The most popular stop on the tour is always Ontario Water Buffalo Company where hosts Martin Littkemann and Lori Smith have been milking water buffalo since 2008. The rich milk from the herd of 200 is shipped to Quality Cheese where it is turned into Mozzarella, Scamorza and Ricotta.

Click to view the full itinerary of the 2015 tour.