Bala Farmers Market

Salvatore’s Gourmet Foods was started in our family’s kitchen around our love of food. Salvatore used his wife Emma’s recipe and perfected it into the mouth-watering tomato sauce it is today. Made fresh from the ripest, sun-kissed tomatoes, the sauce is dairy free, gluten free, with no added sugar and no preservatives.

• Gluten-free
• Preserves

Pillitteri Estates Winery in Niagara-on-the-Lake is a VQA winery focused on local agriculture, known especially for icewines and a full range of table wines. Family-run estate wines are sold at the winery, online, and at farmers' markets across Ontario including Muskoka and Haliburton. Contact: winery@pillitteri.com · 905-468-3147.

• Wine

• Crafts

Cotton's Crooked Stack Sugar Shack makes pure Ontario maple syrup and maple syrup products, handcrafted in Muskoka.

• Maple

Attilio's Fine Foods is a Parry Sound business selling cold-pressed extra virgin olive oil from its family olive orchards in Veroli, in the province of Frosinone, Italy, where the olives are hand-picked the traditional way. It also imports traditionally made aged balsamic vinegars from Modena and sells infused olive oils and balsamics, gift sets and one-pot risotto meals. Its products are carried by shops across Muskoka and Northern Ontario, and it sells at Muskoka farmers' markets through the summer.

• Italian

Basoli Sauces is a Port Hope, Ontario maker of homemade Indian sauces, chutneys, pickles, and spice mixes. Born from grandmother recipes and traditional spice blends, every jar is small-batch crafted by hand in kettles with organic, non-GMO ingredients and no preservatives — proudly made in Canada and ready in about 20 minutes. Shop sauces, chutneys, pickles, marinades, and spice mixes online and at Ontario farmers' markets. Contact: service@basolisauces.com · (416) 820-1830.

• Organic
• Preserves
• Indian

Canadian knifemaker and bladesmith in Gravenhurst, Muskoka. Focused on ideal functioning knives with performance and appearance in mind, using stainless, high carbon, and pattern-welded steel. Each knife is kiln heat-treated and Rockwell-tested after tempering.

• Crafts

The Hemp Spot is a one-stop Canadian hemp shop that promotes Canadian hemp farmers and sells hemp products as alternatives to plastics and other resource-heavy goods. Their online store carries Canadian hemp products from various hemp farmers and small hemp businesses.

Handmade, high quality bath and body care products.

• Crafts

Muskoka Granola is handmade in small batches in Bracebridge, Ontario. The gluten-free granola has no preservatives and is sweetened only with Ontario grade A maple syrup, made from whole almonds, cashews, pumpkin seeds, oats, coconut, coconut oil, cinnamon and sea salt.

• Bakery
• Gluten-free
• Prepared food

Canadian Cutters makes colourful 3D-printed toys, fidgets, and playsets in Orillia, Ontario.

• Crafts

Cosmo's Smoked Meats makes homemade European-style smoked meats and cheeses. Cosmo founded the business in 1978 as the Alliston Mini Mart, began selling at farmers' markets across South and Central Ontario in 1990, and now runs it with his son Jim. Its 25-plus products include salamis, pepperettes, landjaeger, summer sausage, beef jerky, bacon and cured pork shoulder, plus award-winning asiago and goat cheese and a 10-year-old cheddar. Orders ship at a flat rate or can be picked up curbside in Thornton or at its summer markets, including Bala on Mondays, Bracebridge on Saturdays and Uxbridge on Sundays.

• Cheese
• Meat

Fresh produce every Monday!

• Produce

We are a husband and wife team that bakes from our home base business in the heart of Whitby. You can shop online or visit us at events, farmers markets and other locations.

• Bakery

A small family-owned mobile beverage business based in Innisfil, serving handcrafted lemonade and specialty drinks from a vintage horse trailer.

• Prepared food

• Crafts

CJ's Fresh Fish & Seafood is a Muskoka retail and wholesale fish and seafood business, bringing fresh fish, seafood and steak to farmers' markets across Ontario.

• Meat
• Prepared food
• Seafood

Customizable and handmade jewelry.

• Crafts
• Jewellery

Spy Cider House & Distillery is a family-run cider house and distillery at 808108 Sideroad 24 in The Blue Mountains, Ontario, rooted in organic principles. It makes estate apple ciders, vodka, gin, barrel-aged apple brandy, espresso liqueur and sparkling vodka sodas, with a hospitality space for families and friends.

• Cider

Wood & Heart Design Co hand-pours clean-burning soy candles in Muskoka, many with wood wicks and named after northern lakes and cottage life. It began in a home kitchen in 2018 and also makes wax melts, room and linen sprays and bath and body products, and offers custom and private-label candles.

• Crafts

Fresh baked goods, pastries, sandwiches, and more!

• Bakery
• Prepared food