Calendar of Events
Special Events to Enjoy in our 2023 Season
Our farm is now open!
Days open and activities vary with the seasons and the weather. Please arrive no later than 3:00 so you can enjoy all the activities available on our farm.
Our on-farm market is always accessible during open hours and no pre-booking is required.
So many ways to connect with the farm with our special events.
Check out our educational programs, On farm market, Pick your own crops, fun farm activities and our CSA program.
Our farm is open Thursday to Sunday from 9:30 to 5:00
Come join us as we celebrate the seasons here on our farm!
Walk our Reading Trail!
Enjoy a walk on our Reading Trail!
Join Chick and Duckling on their countryside adventure as they greet the morning and all their barnyard friends.
It's a walk that's just the right length for little feet. The children run from page to page of the story Good Morning Railfence Bunch.
Good Morning Railfence Bunch is a rhymical romp through the barnyard written by Carolyn J Morris.
Celebrate Friendship September 21st to 24th
Friends are flowers that never fade.
Celebrate those special in your life by giving them a bouquet of flowers, fresh cut by you.
Our flower garden is beautiful and we'd like to share it with you.
For every $10.00 Cut Your Own Flower bouquet you purchase, you can cut a second bouquet of flowers for free to gift to a friend. Help brighten their day .
Enjoy your time in the garden and the smiles it brings to those who receive your bouquets!
Happy Thanksgiving
There are lots of good things to celebrate about the harvest and we are fortunate to live in a country with such an abundance of food.
Our farm is open daily in October including each day on Thanksgiving weekend (9:30 - 5:00) with lots of good food and lots of family fun. Thanksgiving weekend is our kickoff for our Harvest Festival . Check out all our fun activities available.
Order a fresh, free range turkey, enjoy some of our delicious fresh baked pies - call 905-985-6749 to order.
We wish you and your families a very Happy and Blessed Thanksgiving.
October - Celebrate the Harvest
It's Pumpkin Time
Fall is a great time to visit the farm. The air is cool and crisp; the colours in nature are glorious. Come celebrate the harvest. Join us October weekends for our Harvest Festival . Book Online!
Join us to celebrate the harvest . Get lost in our corn maze, Bee Creative in our craft corner, visit our farm animals, pick your own pumpkins in our patch and partake in special themed quests and scavenger hunts.
Check out all our fun activities available. Our farm is open Tuesdays to Sundays in October (check for times open before coming) with lots of good food and lots of family fun.
Pick your own pumpkins from our fields or in our Pumpkin Corral beside our market. Lots to choose from.
Enjoy the bounty of our harvest by visiting our on farm market - A variety of fresh picked apples to choose from including Honey Crisp and Ambrosia, and take home some of our delicious fresh baked pie. Book your admission online. Walk in spots are available as well.
9th annual Apple Cider Pressing Day
Sunday October 29th- Time to press Apple Cider!
The Geissberger brothers from Farmhouse Cider bring in their mobile cider press to turn our Ontario grown apples into sweet apple cider. An interesting process with a very tasty outcome. Get some hot off the press! Their packaging - vacuum bag in the box - keeps the cider fresh for a year with no need for refrigeration.
Another great way to celebrate the harvest.
November
A Time to Pause, Reflect and Get Ready for Winter
Fall is a great time to visit the farm. The air is cool and crisp; the colors in nature are glorious. November makes me think of homemade soup, staying warm by the fire, and getting the last of the harvest tucked away for winter nourishment.
We are also looking forward to celebrating the Coming of Christmas - our fresh-cut Christmas trees arrive in late November.
We still have our farm animals and Barnyard playground available to visit from Thursday to Sunday in November and December. You are welcome to walk our fields and forest. Remember - Dress for the weather!!!!
Enjoy the bounty of our harvest by visiting our on-farm market - lots of freshly picked apples to choose from including Honey Crisp, and take home some of our delicious fresh baked pies. Check out our Stock up for Winter specials. Our CSA program has also been extended through to December 17th due to popular demand.
A Time for Road Trips - Explore history in your neighborhood.
Experience the secret stories of Ontario’s silent still. Take a guided journey back in time when the dry days of abstinence led to illicit thirsty nights filled with toe-tapping music, tasty food, hotsy-totsy dancing and plenty of giggle water.
Did you know our farm is a part of the North Durham Temperance and Temptation self guided tour. Drop in for a refreshing pause while on your tour through North Durham journeying through time and history of the region.
Dress for the weather!!!!
Enjoy the bounty of our harvest by visiting our on farm market - Stock up on sweet (not hard:) apple cider, fresh picked apples and take home some of our delicious fresh baked pies. Check out our Stock up for Winter specials.
December
Celebrating the Coming of Christmas
It's the most wonderful time of the year... Christmas, for us, is a special time of the year when we celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ our Lord. A time of joy, peace, love, and faith. We love the traditional side of Christmas, seeing families each year who make coming to our farm a part of their Christmas tradition as well as welcoming newcomers.
It smells like a forest as you walk among our freshly cut Christmas trees 🎄. We have a great selection of Balsam fir trees available. They range in height from 5'-8'plus
🦃It's Turkey time and we have fresh, grain-fed turkeys available for special order. Drop by the farm, or email us at forsythefamilyfarms@gmail.com to place your order
Check out our Stock Up for Winter sales. We have raw honey from the beehives on our farm, homemade jams, and preserves, our own naturally raised pork and chicken, freshly baked pies, Christmas cookies, and more...
We are open Thursday to Sunday from 9:30 - 4:00
Our farm closes for the season at 3:00 pm on December 24th.
May your winter be safe and warm!
Celebrate Blossoms and Babies - Victoria Day Weekend
Saturday, Sunday, and Holiday Monday 9:30 - 5:00
Come and join us on our opening weekend as we celebrate babies and blossoms here on the farm.
Walk amongst our apple blossoms, visit our babies in the barn, walk our trails, take a wagon ride... Spring is a beautiful time of year to be outside.
Saturday - Bring Pollutia to life through poetry! She's a character who drops by for farm visits at the peak of the seasons. Share with her your favorite spring words and help her create some poetry for Mother Nature.
Join us for the Grand Opening of our Reading Trail...
Holiday Monday Join children's book author Carolyn Morris as we celebrate our new reading trail
featuring her book Good Morning Railfence Bunch.
Join Chick and Duck on their countryside adventure greeting the morning. Enjoy story time with Carolyn on Victoria Day Monday from 11:00 to 3:00.
Durham Farm and Rural Family Resources (DFRFR) fundraiser - Sunday, June 11th
Join us for a fun day on the farm supporting DFRFR. Come and enjoy all the activities available here on the farm as well as a special presentation of Snow White performed by the Dufflebag Theatre.
Snow White - Mirror Mirror, who is the funniest in the land?
The Queen has always been the “fairest in the land”. Her Magic Mirror tells her so! But when the Queen hears that Snow White has surpassed her, she’s willing to do whatever it takes to get rid of her… forever!
Join us for an interactive and family-friendly performance of Snow White brought to you by The Dufflebag Theatre Company of Toronto.
This is not your typical sit-down-and-watch kind of play! Prepare for lots of laughs and silly fun.
Time: 11 am (Come early and stay late to enjoy the farm. Free admission to the farm is included with ticket)
Tickets: $40 for a family pass (2 adults and up to 4 children), $10 for an individual ticket *Children 2 and under are free
Suitable for: All Ages
Duration: Approximately 50-60 minutes
Raffle tickets with prizes including Blue Jays tickets will be available to purchase with cash and all funds go towards supporting family programs in Uxbridge and Brock.
All purchases day of are cash only, please.
Check out the Dufflebag Theatre website for more information
Durham Farm and Rural Family Resources
Our Mission:
DFRFR provides quality and flexible children’s services and programs to farm and rural families in Durham Region.
Our Vision:
To play a key role in bringing services for children together in the north part of Durham Region so that they are delivered in a creative and coordinated fashion.
Our Programs:
Durham Farm and Rural Family Resources offer Ontario Early Learning programming in both Brock and Uxbridge Township. All programs are free of charge to parents, grandparents, and caregivers with children from birth to six years of age. Programming is provided at four Early Learning Centres, which are located in the communities of Beaverton, Cannington, Sunderland, and Uxbridge. In addition, we offer a seasonal On Farm Childcare program to farm families living in Durham Region.
Sunday, June 18th, Celebrating Parents
Fathers Day is a great time to celebrate family.
Bring your family to visit our farm family. Enjoy a day meeting our barnyard animal friends, crafts, a family-themed scavenger hunt, our Forest Trail, Barnyard Adventure playground, and more.
Time outside at our farm is a great way to spend the day together with family and friends.
Open 9:30 to 5:00 Last admission to Farm'n'Fun area is 3:00 pm
Treat Dad (or any other special man in the family) to a fun day on the farm! Kids can design & decorate one of our fun coupons, and give it to Dad for Fathers’ Day. The coupon allows one free adult per family on the farm for Fathers’ Day, Sunday June 18th. Click on the image below to get a few versions of this coupon for the kids to print out colour.
Celebrating Grandparents Thursday, August 31st
Farmers Jim and Leslie are loving their role as grandparents and invite you to come and celebrate the special relationship grandparents have with their grandchildren.
Grandparents, bring your grandchildren for a day on the farm. Enjoy some old-time favorite activities that are fun for all ages. Enjoy craft time, take a wagon ride and walk our Forest Trail, play in our Barnyard Adventure play area, visit our farm animals, cuddle some bunnies, walk our reading trail, and play games you used to play as a child.
Get lost in our corn maze (you'll be officially the first as it opens on Labor Day weekend). Pick your own vegetables and cut your own flowers are available as an extra charge.
Be a kid again with your grandkids; spend some time making memories here on the farm before the kids go back to school!
Open: 9:30 - 5:00 Activities 10 till 4 No online booking required.
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Celebrate Honey - Labor Day Weekend
Our Honey Harvest is coming into the market and we will be celebrating.
Bees are fascinating. Labor Day weekend we take time to celebrate the hard work of our honey bees and appreciate the sweet taste of summer.
Alongside all our usual weekend activities you can enjoy a variety of activities focusing on bees and honey using all your senses.
Check out our bee hives and watch our Lessons from the Farm educational video featuring our beekeeper and his bees. Sing our honey bee song. Dress up like a bee. Check out the tools we use to harvest honey. Bee creative in our craft corner.
10:00 - 4:00 Saturday, Sunday and Labor Day Monday (Regular weekend admission charge applies) No online booking required.