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Cookstown Greens is a family-run certified organic farm that specializes in a wide selection of microgreens and root vegetables. We take great pride in the quality and flavour of our vegetables, which come from our healthy and nutrient-rich soil, and we are passionate about producing premium quality vegetables with outstanding flavour. Under the stewardship of Vicky and Mike, Cookstown has evolved its farm focus to hone in on specific crops and grow them exceptionally. Vicky and Mike are very passionate about farm fresh flavour. Their drive, dedication, and commitment are a testament to the longevity and sustainability of Cookstown Greens. As stewards of the land, Cookstown Greens consistently practices ethical and responsible standards in everything we do and remains focused on organic farming rooted in sustainability.

Clearwater Farms in Georgina, Ontario is a hands-on, place-based educational farm. Clearwater provides kids with the opportunity to get their hands dirty gardening and their young minds excited by fresh food, fresh water, fresh air, and fresh ideas. Promoting living in harmony with nature, Clearwater exists to deepen young people’s connections with the natural environment, marrying the arts, science, and technology to cultivate a more sustainable future.

We are the Cooper Family and we have been farming in the Greater Toronto Area for almost 200 years. Seven generations of Coopers have been earning a living in agriculture. So yes, we have a little bit of experience. We keep it pretty simply here on our farm. We love to grow & raise really good food. We combine all forms and styles of farming practices so that our farm can produce amazing products while taking care care of the land that we farm on. We grow & raise safe, healthy, fresh, amazing tasting food. We raise our livestock with ethical care and let animals be animals. And we grow our fruits, vegetables and field crops with care for the crops and the environment.

Aimee and her family started farming to supply their own kitchen with foods they could trust. We work with them because they are our best assurance that the eggs we’re getting are from happy, well cared for chickens, that are well-fed and completely pasture raised, as in out in truly out in the open fields. Aimee will occasionally supply is with garlic, potatoes, strawberries or whatever other produce she might have extra of given the season.

Jim and Elaine Hulshof retired from field farming and turned to microgreen production. They grow a wide variety of microgreens free from chemical sprays or GMOs. Try their sprouts in store in our favourite varieties: arugula, cilantro, mustard, and salad blend.

Estrelitta at garlicious specializes in, you guessed it, garlic! Find her garlic in store when seasonally available. Chemical free and delicious, garlicious grows a wide selection of garlic varieties.

Springhills is our fellow local sustainable fish farmer. They grow a variety of fishes year round using sustainable fish farming practices that don’t affect natural ecosystems. Their fish is free from pollutants, chemicals, mercury, and microplastics and presents the healthiest most sustainable option for consuming fish. Plus they’re delicious. Try rainbow trout, arctic char, coho salmon, pickerel, and their popular pickerel burgers and smoked trout dips in store.

Daniel is another local farmer in Uxbridge that we collaborate with. Daniel mostly supplies restaurants with his specialty potatoes and hot peppers, but when we can we collaborate with him to make these unique items available to you in store. We like working with small farmers like Daniel as it’s our reassurance that zero chemicals, pesticides, or GMO’s are involved in the growing of your food. Plus, support the little guy!

Fellow young farmers and first generation farmers, we love our friends at Mushroom Meadows. These guys grow a variety of super cool and unique mushrooms like oysters, chestnuts, lion’s mane, and more. Check out their mushrooms fresh every week in store or their variety of dried mushrooms, including reishi and chaga, for those wicked health benefits. You can also find their mushroom grow kits in store if you want to try your hand at growing your own mushrooms!

Gunn’s Hill Artisan Cheese factory is nestled in the hills of Oxford County, the dairy capital of Canada. Where there once stood 100 small cheese producers a century ago, there is only a handful now. Owners Shep Ysselstein and Colleen Bator are proud of their little thriving business that is now seeing their cheeses in over 300 locations across Ontario! The cheeses produced at Gunn’s Hill are truly unique, although you can taste the Swiss influence from techniques and recipes Shep learned while making cheese in the town of Handeck in the Swiss Alps. Today, there are two full time cheese makers and a team of staff that work diligently to produce some of Canada’s finest award-winning cheeses. The milk used to create the cheeses comes from their neighbouring family dairy farm, Friesvale Farms, where the finest Canadian milk is produced. To ensure cheeses that are of top quality and taste, Gunn’s Hill Artisan Cheeses are hand crafted using traditional cheese-making methods.

Gordon and Bethany were both raised on small family farms and carried on the traditions and health benefits of consuming farm fresh products with their own goat farm. Gordon began experimenting turning their goat milk into cheeses and Gordon’s Goat Dairy took off from there. Producing milk, kefir, yoghurt, and 11 kinds of cheeses, Gordon’s Goat is your stop for farm fresh, healthy, sustainable, and delicious goat products. Their well-loved goats are fed mineral, whey, all non-GMO crops grown on their own land. Everything is made in small batches, with low temperature pasteurization to retain healthy nutrients, leaving a live product that ages naturally. Goat milk has digestible A2 protein and is naturally homogenized.

Eat Live Love Group consists of duo chef team Luigi Rotella and Danielle Rosa. Offering high end authentic Italian inspired food, they prioritize local whole ingredients above all else. Collaborators and friends of Fresh Heads, we work hand in hand to make local ingredient prepared foods available to our community. Find Eat Live Love Group’s prepared meals and desserts in store and try their food fresh made at select Fresh Heads event days.

Baker House Bread is a small bakery focused on bringing hand mixed sourdough breads to the Markham community. We exclusively use locally sourced grains & incorporate a high percentage of whole grain in each of our products. We are always experimenting with new items, so be sure to check in store for what we are offering each week!

Phoenix & Arnold Grass Fed Beef raise pasture raised, grass fed beef in Clarington, Ontario. This is small scale farming that’s environmentally friendly with happy cattle and an end product in which you can taste the difference. We order a quarter of the animal at a time - it’s more sustainable, produces less waste, and helps support the farmer. Help us continue this by exploring new cuts - quality beef means you won’t be disappointed!

Tito Parley’s is a local family run business located in Whitby and specializing in Filipino inspired desserts, particularly silvanas. Available in a variety of flavours, these luxurious frozen desserts are somewhere between a macaron and an ice cream sandwich.

Bill the beekeeper is our neighbour, making honey just down the street from us with his well kept hives, giving his friendly bee partners the best life.

Ontario Honey Creations is a family owned and operated beekeeping business. We pride ourselves on offering seasonal terroir honey, where you can taste the uniqueness of the flowers in bloom. Our honey is 100% raw and unpasteurized, meaning that all of the natural enzymes and local pollen are still present in our honey.

Mom’s is all about enjoying the classic favourites your mom used to make made vegan. Suitable for vegans and non-vegans alike, enjoy a taste of your childhood with the added benefit of wholesome, sustainable ingredients.

Spade & Spoon is a small batch preserves company located in the beautiful rolling hills of Northumberland County, Ontario. We focus on using local Ontario ingredients, much of which we grow ourselves on our farm. We offer a range of locally made fine foods made with local and organic ingredients - jams & jellies, relishes & chutneys, pickles, fermentations (sauerkrauts, cucumbers, carrots), and maple syrup from our maple bush too! Over the years we’ve amassed a wide selection of much loved recipes and can confidently say we have something for everyone!

Nestled amongst the pines in the beautiful village of Baysville, Ontario, Yummies in a Jar has been Jam’n in Muskoka since 1992! This delightful cottage industry began with a dozen varieties of handmade jams and has grown to include over 100 fabulously delicious products. From pepper jellies, jams, dessert toppings, and oil free vinaigrettes, to flavoured maple syrups, mustards, and BBQ sauces using local craft beer, our selection is amazing! Whether you are trying Yummies for the first time or have been enjoying our unique creations for 30 years, we hope you love your Yummies in a Jar as much as we love making them for you.

Our passion for extreme hot peppers like the world’s hottest the “Carolina Reaper”, the Bhut Jolokia, the Scotch Bonnet, and the Trinidad Scorpion have driven us to make our own hot sauces that we couldn’t find anywhere else. We needed fire, flavour, and uniqueness. What started out as a hobby has now turned into a full blown passion. Based out of Ajax, Ontario, we are a proud Canadian company that makes fiery hot sauce. And we are happy to offer a wide range of flavours that will surely satisfy your heat-seeking needs. All of our recipes include the freshest of ingredients, are gluten-free, mostly organic, and have no artificial additives or preservatives.

Our family has been making maple syrup on Ennis Road for almost a century! On most late winter and early spring weekends three generations of Ennis’ work together to tap, gather and boil the sap. We still do it the old fashioned way: all wood fired! We make 100% pure Ontario maple syrup; it’s local meaning it takes less energy to get it from our farm to your fridge. Local farmers need our support and ensuring it says “Product of Ontario” helps us to keep working our family farms so we can help feed your family!

The idea for Comeback Snacks was forged while I was still in prison where I was keenly aware of the tough challenges my fellow inmates and I faced in getting back on our feet. Since then, it has been the Comeback team’s mission to raise awareness for second chances, hire those in need of one when we can, and to support reintegration programs, with a share of profits allocated to like-minded causes as we grow the business. Comeback Snacks are made with conviction. We blend decadently delicious ingredients to make compelling recipes that offer a fresh take in the world of gourmet popcorn. Everyone deserves a Comeback!

Copperpot Nuts began as a garage start-up in rural Coldwater back in 2009. We created our own production facility and launched the brand right here near Coldwater, Ontario. We started with just three varieties of your favorite beer nuts, and we’ve since grown to offer close to twenty delicious flavors in shop. All of our nuts are double roasted and packaged by hand in small batches. We source as many ingredients as we can from local producers.

I’m Edwin Fong, the human behind nutfreedoodles from Markham, Ontario. I’m a physiotherapist by profession, an artist by curiosity, and a paw-rent to Mylo, the mini goldendoodle. As a kid, I spent countless hours watching and re-watching shows such as Animaniacs, Fresh Prince of Bel-air, and Saved by the Bell. Humour filled my childhood with non-stop laughter that I remember fondly. Instinctively, I’m always looking to find humour in everyday life. During COVID-19 I started drawing as a creative outlet to express myself visually and sharpen my wit. I love the freedom to let my silly brain off-leash through my art. Pun fact: why the name “nut-free” doodles? With nut allergies so prevalent today I wanted my drawings to be safe for everyone.

Established in 2019, Candle Cove co. began as a small one-man business that started out of creator Megan’s kitchen in her home in Markham. Over the last few years it has grown into a thriving operation that ships across Canada and the US. All of Megan’s candles are made of 100% soy wax and cotton wicked. All her candles are hand poured, including her concrete jars, and feature carefully curated scents.

Spahket, a Kawartha Lakes, Ontario small business owner, making a wide variety of luxurious natural, hand made plant and mineral base products. Ever since my youngest son was diagnosed with a rear childhood disease, my family has been committed to using natural products. I struggled to find a natural product good enough to help my eczema ridden kids, yet pure enough to be trusted for their dry and sensitive skin; I turned to the things I had learned from my grandmother like coconut oil making and soap making. Years later when encouraged by a friend to start a business and market my products, Spahket Natural Luxury was born. Spahket is about the perfect belnd of portable and natural luxury. We make simple, effective and uncomplicated products with a fresh, natural & new feel that have no harmful colorants, petroleum, parabens, harsh chemicals or animal testing. Everything is handmade in small batches to maintain absolute quality control.

Warning – Spahket products are addictive We believe less is more, and more is what you deserve.

I’ve always been fascinated by glass. The texture, the colours, the shapes all interact with light to evoke a feeling. When worked in the flame, glass flows, allowing the artist to form rounds, barrels, bicones, droplets – almost anything. Glass is durable as well as beautiful. And the colours! From muted to vibrant, ethereal to bold, glass colours and combinations are almost unlimited.

When my children were young, we collected glass beads wherever we went. They learned to string them into bracelets, necklaces and decorations, only to take them apart sometime later to create something new. It wasn’t until years later that I began to wonder whether I could actually make the beads instead of collecting them.

I took a one day class at Bead FX, a wonderful centre for crafting in Toronto, and was immediately hooked. Having no torch or kiln myself, I went to the Bead FX studio on Monday nights to torch and learn by watching others. Everyone there was very generous with their suggestions and encouragement.

After about a year of torching at Bead FX, I knew I needed a studio of my own. My amazingly talented husband Greg built me one in our backyard, with double sliding doors and a skylight to take advantage of the light and the view of the garden. I have everything I need there: torch, kiln, tools, space to make beads into jewelry, and storage for glass of all colours and makes. I know how lucky I am to have a place for creativity, beauty and continual learning. Every piece I create is one of a kind; nothing is repeated. It is truly wearable glass art. I hope you enjoy these pieces as much as I enjoyed making them.

My time as a wood turner began in 1987 when I received a lathe for a Christmas gift. The following December while at a craft show in St. Paul’s, ON, the then president of Art in the Park saw my work and convinced me to join the association. I’ve been forever grateful for her encouragement and for the many doors that have been opened since joining the group. I also gained a great deal of inspiration and newfound respect for the many woodworkers in this area, who appreciated, as I do, the incredible amount of resources in the local trees and the variety of species around us in Perth County and surrounding area. I’ve turned well over forty local woods, and there are many that I haven’t yet explored. Each species has its own unique characteristics, and the adventure found in this exploration is a great part of the reward. When I cut into a rough block of wood and see a particular pattern or feature, I am the first person to have ever seen that inner landscape; and if I cut further into the piece, I will have been the only person EVER to have seen what I had just cut through. That sense of adventure and exploration, coupled with the appreciation shown by the many people who have enjoyed my bowls all over the world, is what continues to encourage me to keep searching the logs. In this increasingly complex and challenging world, the simple nature of turning a bowl or plate or serving tray, and the joy it brings to the owner of that piece, is to me more gratifying than I could ever have imagined.

Welcome to my adventure.

Jeremy is a local woodworker specializing in Swedish style spoons. All his spoons are hand carved using local woods, some sourced right here from Fresh Heads Farm! These spoons are knife finished, meaning they are finished with hand tools rather than sanded, requiring precision, technique, and patience. These spoons are food safe, should be hand washed, and regularly coated with a bees wax or linseed oil to elongate their life. Each spoon is one-of-a-kind, being hand made and carefully carved to best showcase the Ontario wood from which it is sourced.

McDermott Country Meadow is about a dream for a naturally wholistic lifestyle and love of the land. We traded our suburban home and lifestyle for life in the country and we love it. We are a family run wholistic farm, organic compliant, just steps away from Lake Scugog. As we enjoy life on our small farm we desire to share our love of the land and our daydreamers rest-stop with you. We have a whimsical romance flower garden, an expansive vegetable garden, a mini orchard, tea garden, lounge area, daydream space and more. We trust you will enjoy our offerings.

Heike Handmade are a husband and wife duo making high quality handmade leather goods. With backgrounds in the textile, clothing, and leather industry, they apply their expertise to acquiring the best quality sustainable leathers from around the world. They specialize in making a variety of bags, wallets, keychains and more to suit every taste.

Hi! I'm Puni Puni Pottery. Puni puni is the Japanese Onomatopoeia of squishing something soft. At Puni Puni Pottery, everything starts off as soft clay. It is then hand built or thrown on a wheel to a shape, trimmed, fired, glazed, and then fired again. All creations are made with care, love and time. I hope to share my pieces with the goal of adding a little bit of joy to your homes.

Art Hunny is the small business of a local GTA artist whose mediums are diverse and varied. Jordan specializes in greetings cards that feature her digitally created work in classic and fun pictures and patterns. Plus find her stickers in store for a fun extra.

Manning Canning is a local brand who’s best known at Fresh Heads for their infamous pickled carrots. They also create some fantastic spreads and healthy sodas featuring apple cider vinegar!

Leanne at The Giving Place grows fields and fields of fresh, chemical free lavender and other flowers. Check out her homemade lavender teas, lavender sugar, dried lavender (food safe), dried bouquets, and honey (from her own bees!)

Kate makes her own candy mixes, including seasonal exclusives, and specializes in freeze dried versions of your favourite candies! Find a variety of candies in different size packaging in store.

County Bounty is our local soda maker! With a wide array of flavours, including seasonal exclusives, County Bounty experiments with local ingredients to produce unique flavoured sodas that quench thirst and delight the senses.

Using only Canadian beeswax, husband and wife duo Cathy and Paul handmade candles in a wide variety of shapes and sizes to suit any taste. Beeswax is by far the longest lasting candle and healthiest candle to burn.