Farm Tours and Mead Tasting
Free parking, country air, some natural tasty sweet treats, and free entertainment. Tasting room tables & bar stools for bar service are on a first-come, first-served basis. We have outdoor seating for about 100 people and inside for about 8 people. Free entertainment is scheduled for Sundays afternoons this summer of 2025. No dogs are allowed on any booked tour, tasting, or visit to our farm.
Agritourism
By booking a farm tour you can participate in agritourism, enjoy being on a farm, and learn about agriculture. You might wonder why you might want to bother booking a farm tour? Here are some of the reasons:
- You get so see how food is grown and prepared and you usually can pet and feed our horses and get to see how honeybees live and work together.
- You'd be supporting a local business. Farming at small scale is not an easy business and agritourism provides some additional income for us farmers. We in turn invest this back into our operations and this provides more jobs and food for our community.
- It's environmentally friendly. We minimize the footprint of visitors and only offer tours when it doesn't adversely affect the local environment or farm operations.
- You get to learn about Richmond Hill's past agricultural heritage and what is going on now.
- You get to experience the Oak Ridges Moraine countryside and enjoy its natural beauty
- Taste local products: Sample organic and environmentally-friendly products
Music at the meadery is back but on Sundays in 2025 (maybe some Saturdays too). The bar is open year-round but the kitchen is now closed until June 2025. We don't allow visitors to roam the farm without advanced booking of a tour. No dogs are allowed at any time.
We are accepting group bookings now via our contact us page. We offer truly unique group experiences.
2025 musical performance schedule (weather dependent).
June 22th - Michael Dankert 1:30 until 3:45 PM
June 29th - Jerome Tucker Band 1:30 until 3:45 PM
July 6th - Part Time Gods 1:30 until 3:45 PM
We have big dogs & horses so
please leave your dog at home.
No cover charge. Washrooms available.Download the Live Entertainment Poster
WARNING: under Ontario law, an agritourism provider is not liable for the death or injury or illness of a participant in an agritourism activity conducted at this agritourism location if that injury or death or illness results from the inherent risks of that agritourism activity. Inherent risks of agritourism activities include, but are not limited to, the risk of injury inherent to land, equipment and animals as well as the potential for you as a participant to act in a negligent manner that may contribute to your injury or death. You are assuming the risk of participating in this agritourism activity.
- Individual farm tours for 9 people or less are finished for the season. Our personal tour booking app will be updated on this web page about April 1st and the first tour date will be in mid May; however, for groups of 10 or more adults (up to 100) please contact us to book now as time slots are filling up. You can also book a mead tasting at the link below:
- Tour of the stable, main bee yard, mating yard, haskap, apple, raspberry & pear orchards
- Introduction to horses, feed the horses apples or carrots
- Discussion of the flowers & trees in bloom and what to plant in your garden to help bees
- A lesson about how honey is made by the bees and then harvisted
- A look in our honey extraction facility
- A look in our wine production facility and a Q & A about how delicious honeywine (mead) is fermented
- We'll open a live hive to see the types of bees and the queen (weather permitting)
- Discussion of the products from the hive
- A honey or mead tasting!
Go to Wine Tastings booking page
Honeybee experience farm tours are generally offered weekly from May to late September. For groups of 10 or more adults please contact us. These tours are not geared for children under 7 years old. No dogs are allowed on any tour or tastings. If you'd like to give a farm tour or workshop as a gift to someone special we have gift certificates available.
Farm tours and workshops must be booked online. Personal tour booking (for 10 or less) is not available via telephone or while visting the farm.
Tours are about 80 minutes in duration. Large groups take longer. Protective veils are included. Workshops are guided by our head Apiarist plus John our Mead Maker. Both tours and workshops are geared to adults; however, younger participants over 7 years old are welcomed.
Topics covered include the following:Our kitchen is closed until late June. Honey and bottle shop will always be open. No dogs are allowed on any tour or tastings.
