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Renowned for its pleasant mix of rural charm and urban sophistication, Durham Region offers a variety of equally unique culinary tourism experiences.

With some of the richest soil in Ontario, a lake-moderated environment for growing and strong partnerships with all partners in the supply chain, Durham boasts a thriving agriculture sector that includes the province’s top apple producer, the largest commercial blueberry grower east of Toronto and award-winning wineries. Here you’ll find produce, crops, livestock and everything in between.

Thanks to keen interest and creative collaborations between local growers, processors, suppliers, chefs, industry associations and tourism partners, culinary tourism continues to grow in Durham. Eight farmers’ markets across the region feature countless locally grown produce. Almost every week throughout the summer, a new and tasty fruit or vegetable can be picked ripe from one of the region’s 60 farms that open their gates to the public.

Savour Durham consists of local restaurants and farmers who partner and feature local foods on their menus. The program encourages restaurants to purchase and serve products produced in Durham, and strives to promote, with a variety of promotional vehicles, restaurants that serve high-quality local foods.

Vast resources, such as over 330,000 acres of prime agricultural land and market-driven educational programs at Durham College and the University of Ontario Institute of Technology (UOIT), could only mean an expanded culinary tourism sector for Durham for the future.

To learn more about Savour Durham and other culinary tourism experiences in the region,
please contact tourism@durham.ca.

Websites:
www.durhamtourism.ca
www.durhamfarmfresh.ca

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