Barcha Balaban – funky pottery for home and garden
Colin Redknap – woodturning
Gwen Rousseau – fabric garden sculpture and tatting
Debra Munro of Lanark Highlands Lavender – natural skin care
Regina Brenke-Leach of Mostly Leather by Regina – hand-stitched leatherwork
Laurel Cook – animal portraiture
Michael Peterson – basketry
Mike Desrochers – artistic blacksmithing
April 12, 2025
1pm -3pm
$20
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Includes 2-hour workshop with Jim Davies. We will discuss the importance of pruning your apple/fruit trees and different approaches. After learning the basics, we’ll head out to the orchard so you can practice your skills.
Of course, we’ll end the workshop with some fruits of our labours - a cider tasting!
Most of this workshop will take place outside! Please dress for the weather.
No previous experience pruning is required for this workshop.
Maximum of 15 participants.
May 8, 2025
5pm-9pm
$130 + tax Early Bird (until April 13th)
$140 + tax Regular
Join us for our 3rd annual springtime dining event! Celebrate all that the season has to offer with a four-course meal expertly paired with our sparkling ciders.
This year, we are partnering with three remarkable women: local Dakota chef and Indigenous food sovereignty educator Caitlin Noel-Drews, Oji-Cree pastry chef Dominique Lalonde, and local Arnprior chef and ice cream maven Chantelle Heeney-Mallard. Focussing on locally foraged and wild foods paired with traditional practices, this dinner is sure to be a celebration of all we hold dear: local, sustainable, delicious.
Start your evening with a cocktail and hors d’oeuvres, enjoy the stylings of local musicians, and wander through our orchard in bloom. Then sit down to a four-course meal inspired by the land around us, paired with exquisite Farmgate ciders.
MEET OUR CHEFS
Caitlin Noel-Drews is a Dakota chef and Indigenous food sovereignty educator, dedicated to revitalizing traditional foodways through sustainable, culturally rooted cuisine. She merges ancestral knowledge with modern culinary expertise honed under some of Canada’s top chefs, crafting dishes that celebrate Indigenous resilience and connection to the land. Through her work, she challenges perceptions of Indigenous cuisine, inspiring a return to traditional, sustainable ways of eating.
Dominique LaLonde is an Oji-Cree pastry chef of the Sachigo Lake First Nation. In 2019, she received her Spirit Name Neu Uasstessiu Nipish_woman of the Four Colours of Fall __ and her clan, the Eagle Clan. It is her life’s mission to give honour to her name and realize its full potential, growing and learning, and to let herself be guided by Spirit.
The inspiration for Kisisâm, her pâtisserie, came soon after. Kisisâm in her language means “she who bakes with fire”. In her words, “My eyes were now wide open. That flower or plant or fungi now spoke to me, unveiling their gifts one by one and how they were used by my ancestors as food or medicine. My heart and mind were on a journey of discovery. People came into my life that shared the same core values and my love for locally sourced and foraged ingredients. I wanted to share that with others, and this led me to finding my path - with pastries inspired by my Indigenous roots, let people experience the art of Indigenous storytelling baked into every bite!
I am still early in my journey. I opened Kisisâm officially in the summer of 2023. I thank the Creator every day for the many blessings and helping me bring the voices of my ancestors forward.”
Chantelle Heeney-Mallard has been working in the pastry world for over a decade now, with periods of time working at the Parliamentary Kitchen, in fine dining with the Kitchin Group Restaurants in Edinburgh, as a chocolatier and gelato maker at Hummingbird Chocolate and most recently diving deep into her own business Mallard’s Milk Bar. With Mallard’s she has taken her love of travel, using local ingredients, foraging and community, and scooped it into one big beautiful ball of a local Homemade Ice Cream Business in Arnprior.
June 14, 2025
7pm
$40
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Farmgate Cider is pleased to bring back the incomparable, JUNO-award winning Angelique Francis for a night of upbeat, swinging sound!
Join us for this special music event! Sip on ciders in our heritage barn, while listening to one of Canada's best.
JUNO Award winning and 2x Canadian Blues award winning artist Angelique Francis, is a versatile and exceptionally gifted musician. This multi-talented, multi-instrumentalist, multi-genre singer song writer and composer has wowed audiences across the globe with her electrifying performances, instrumental abilities and powerful textured vocals. She is known for her eclectic mix of various musical genres including Blues, Soul, Folk, Americana, Jazz, Gospel and Rock. Angelique has shared the stage/opened for a large roster of well-known musicians such as Buddy Guy, Gary Clark Jr, Joe Bonamassa, Eric Gales, Keb’ Mo’, Beth Hart, Tom Cochran, Burton Cummings, Sugar Ray and the list goes on.
Angelique’s soulful smoky vocals and instrumental techniques are reminiscent of a bygone era, but with a unique and modern sensibility. Within her vocal style, you can hear influences of legends like Big Mama Thornton, Koko Taylor, Aretha Franklin, and Bessie Smith.
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