EAT & DRINK

THE BIG BASH! CULTIVATE FESTIVAL

Cultivate food market.

EVENT PORT HOPE 

CELEBRATE THE HARVEST WITH GROWERS, CHEFS AND ARTISTS

EAT PAKORAS TO THE MUSIC OF BANDS LIKE LEMON BUCKET ORKESTRA

Imagine taking a long weekend to slow things down, kick off your shoes in the grass and hang out with friends and family. Eat fresh, local food like Osland Farm steak with Ferguson Farm potato French fries. Watch painters and sculptors doing their thing. Learn about hen-keeping and foraging,

while the kids learn to make comics or applesauce. Add in some craft brews and a lineup of great music from here and away in the bandshell. The Cultivate Festival in Memorial Park from September 25 to 27 is the big harvest season bash that makes us proud to live in a small, tight-knit community. "We bring in world-class talent and then we weave those talents with locally-grown artists making it something that feels authentically Port Hope," says festival director Jeff Bray. "It's a first-class festival people are happy to travel to and discover." Best moment in Cultivate history? Lemon Bucket Orkestra, a "Ukrainian party punk" band in 2019, Bray says.