We will be offering three tours at our congress. All tours start in Guelph, include one night at a hotel enroute and end in Niagara Falls. Each tour focuses on agriculture near a Great Lake. This information will be updated as tour stops are confirmed.

Lake Ontario Tour

This tour will run east through Toronto to the Prince Edward County region. The county has become synonymous for Canadian food tourism, with restaurants run by famous chefs who have driven the demand for local food and many family farms involved in marketing directly to consumers. There also is a growing base of wineries, theatre and cultural venues and small cheese plants, including a “green” goat cheese producer. The overnight stop enroute is tentatively planned for Belleville, Ontario.

Lake Erie Tour

This tour will move southwest from Guelph toward the city of Chatham and the Leamington area which includes the largest greenhouse industry in North America. Southern Ontario is the home of much of the province’s livestock production, including dairy and there is a large assembly of Dutch farmers in the region. As the tour moves further southwest, there are family-run identity preserved crop elevators and sugar beet production. The overnight stop enroute is currently planned for Chatham, Ontario.

Lake Huron Tour

This tour will go northwest from Guelph through Ontario's agricultural heartland, Wellington, Perth and Huron counties. This region has become home to many farm families from the Netherlands, Switzerland and Germany. A produce auction has revitalized old-order Mennonite farms by giving them markets for produce. There are also leading hog and dairy farms, along with one of the largest edible bean processors in the world. There are also some farmer-owned dairy and meat processing plants on the way, along with corn mazes that cater to the agri-tourism audience. The overnight stop enroute is likely to be in Grand Bend, Ontario.