Photos: Local farmers open gates to show where food comes from
![Dale Wright of Hawksview Honey gives Alyvvea Beemer, 11, a tour of the honey making equipment on Saturday, October 8, 2022. The tour was on one of the stops as part of Tourism Windsor Essex Pelee Island's Open Farms Day.](https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/open-farms.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=288&h=216)
From cows, bees and oysters to microgreens, cider and wine, Open Farms Day on Saturday saw the folks who grow and produce food locally open up their operations to residents to explore and learn.
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Open Farms, presented by Tourism Windsor Essex Pelee Island in partnership with the Essex County Federation of Agriculture, was also an opportunity to celebrate those involved in the diversity of local farming, a major component of the area’s economy.
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![Dale Wright of Hawksview Honey gives Alyvvea Beemer, 11, a tour of the honey-making equipment on Saturday in Harrow as part of Open Farms Day in Essex County.](https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/open-farms-2-e1665438433325.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=288)
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There were also oyster-shucking lessons at Dockside Fisheries; microgreens tasting at Ortaliza Urban Farms; apple pressing at The Little Cider Company, and more.
![Dale Wright of Hawksview Honey is shown with the company’s Harrow beehives on Saturday, October 8, 2022.](https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/open-farms-3.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=288)
![Young participants in Saturday’s Open Farms event in Essex County also got to be creative, in addition to learning how the food that goes on our tables is sourced in the farming community.](https://smartcdn.gprod.postmedia.digital/windsorstar/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/open-farms-1.jpg?quality=90&strip=all&w=288)