Bushgarden

Bushgarden

Bushgarden Farm is a fifth generation family farm located in the heart of the Rideau Lakes. We have been certified organic since 2006 and milk 20 Holstein and Brown Swiss cows. 

We make organic raw milk cheese by hand.

The Smith family has been farming on Bush Road since the 1820’s.  

It has always had a small dairy herd and in 2006 was certified as organic.  

We grow hay, barley, oats and peas, corn and sorghum-sudan grass–all without the use of synthetic fertilizers, herbicides fungicides or pesticides.

It is a true family enterprise without any outside labour being hired onto the farm.

In the winter of 2011, Bob and Nigel built a small cheese “studio” on the farm even siding the building with home-grown lumber.