Crisp craft beers, locally created dishes, camaraderie. Oh, and all that music. Cultivate: a Festival of Food & Drink is upon us, and this is why you need to be there.
Don’t mourn summer festival season just yet, because one of its brightest stars is yet to come out. All systems are go for Cultivate: a Festival of Food & Drink on September 23, 24 and 25 at Memorial Park in Port Hope. But this isn’t your average festival. Cultivate is a family-friendly celebration of food, music beer and wine and you can take in the best of all of those next weekend. Need more convincing? We’ve got a few reasons for you.
Oh and hey! If you like what you see, why not enter to win tickets to Cultivate?
The Food
Ontario happens to be flush with some of the best restaurateurs, cafes and farmers markets in the entire country, and Cultivate’s organizers have done an excellent job putting the food you absolutely need in your face – in your face. Grab a burger the size of your head at Olympus Burger, reward your kids at Ruby’s Cotton Candy Club or stock up on farm-fresh produce from Burnham Family Farms.
The Beer
There are approximately thirteen billion Ontario craft beers right now, and Cultivate has done you the service of filtering (unintended pun) the tastiest ones right onto their grounds. Grab a pint from some of the OG’s of Ontario craft beer, Church-key Brewing and William St. Beer Company. Or check out what some of the newcomers up to. Try some strawberry ale from Northumberland Hills Brewery or try the Boots Electric from Manantler and Eagles of Death Metal. Awesome-as-hell-note: $1 from every purchase of Boots Electric goes to the Sweet Stuff Foundation.
The Music
For a few months out of the year, Southern Ontario is a wellspring of music festival activity, but quite a few of them boat lineups that aren’t exactly family friendly. And what is the line between music you can feel comfortable exposing your family to, and The Wiggles? Well if anyone sees that line, it’s Cultivate. Over 3 days, Cultivate’s lineup boasts artists like Wooden Sky, Corb Lund, soul Chanteuse Tanika Charles and 2016 Polaris Prize finalist Basia Bulat. Cultivate may be a relative newcomer to the festival scene, but man is their lineup game strong.
Here are some of the songs you’re likely to hear next weekend.
Basia Bulat
Wooden Sky
Corb Lund
Tanika Charles
Donovan Woods
All this, plus speakers, community involvement and activism, kids programming, a pie-off(!) and a ton more.
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