FAQ

Cultivate Festival takes place on September 23, 24 and 25 at Haute Goat Farm, rural Port Hope. 

You can pop this into your GPS, or you can grab a shuttle from Downtown Port Hope. 

The FREE shuttle bus will be leaving from Ganaraska Brewing Company and headed straight to Cultivate Festival at Haute Goat. 

There will be two busses each day and space is limited. The busses are first come, first served. 

Friday 
Bus #1 Departing at 5:00pm and Bus #2 at 5:45pm
Both Coming Back - 9:15pm 

Saturday

Bus #1 Departing at 10:45am and Bus #2 at 11:00am
Both Coming Back - 9:15pm 

**A third bus leaving Ganaraska Brewing at 4pm and headed back to Downtown from Cultivate Festival at 4:30. 

Sunday

Bus #1 Departing at 10:45am and Bus #2 at 11:00am
Both Coming Back - 5:15pm 

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Join us at 10pm on Friday and Saturday nights at The Ganaraska Hotel!

The Ontario All Star Bluegrass Band will play on Friday and Runaway Twain (Shania cover band) on Saturday. 

DJ Chris Martell will spin from midnight to close!

A weekend pass to Cultivate includes unlimited, weekend-long access to:

• Live music with an emphasis on Canada’s finest performers (past performers include The Strumbellas, The Sheepdogs, Lemon Bucket Orkestra, Said the Whale, Fred Penner and Donovan Woods)
• Free artistic and wellness programming throughtout the weekend
• Cultivate Academy's hands-on workshops and seminars with top chefs and cookbook authors
• Cultivate Kid's provides open-ended play opportunities, family-focused performance, creative art workshops, and a comfortable breastfeeding and baby-change station. Best of all? A weekend pass for kids 12 and under is free!
• Out-of-the-box multi-disciplinary arts experiences
• Access to incredible local food, sourced mostly from Northumberland but exclusively from within Ontario, straight from farm-to-festival, starting at $5
• Access to handcrafted and local beverages, from craft breweries to artisanal cocktails starting at $6
• Access to hot and cold non-alcoholic, hand-crafted beverages from Northumberland’s best producer
• Keep an eye on our programming for all the details

General Admission pricing covers the full festival experience, but does not include food and drink purchases. Ask nicely though, and you never know what you'll get. 🙂

The Festival Organizer requires all Festival participants to comply with Provincial and local health unit COVID-19 Guidelines in effect at the time of the Festival. It is anticipated that these guidelines will dictate screening, mask wearing, social distancing and other protocols. Signage will be conspicuously posted. Touchless transactions will be implemented at ticket scanning and elsewhere when possible to minimize any direct contact.

As we get closer to the event, we will be announcing more details.

To see our terms and conditions, please click here. 

We have taken steps to ensure that there are as few barriers to enjoy the festival as possible. Although the venue offers many accessible areas,   it is an outdoor, grassy surface.

There are parking spots reserved for those with accessibility permits right close to the gates.  Also a drop off area. There is clear directional signage marking the location of the festival, the front gate is fully accessible. Support persons and animals are permitted to the festival.

Inside the festival, all food menus are written on large boards, the washrooms, food and drink service areas and stages are all wheelchair accessible. The Craft Beverage tent has tables with removable chairs.

There will be accessible seating areas. 

Multiple accessible washrooms will be made available. 

The scheduling of the Festival maybe impacted due to the global COVID-19 pandemic. Should the Festival be postponed or cancelled, information will be provided to obtain refunds, please note ticketing fees are not refundable. Otherwise, Tickets are non-refundable.

Inside the festival grounds you will find a wide variety of food and drink, both non-alcoholic and alcoholic drinks. Food and drink is a key part of the Cutlivate experience, and our vendors appreciate your support more than ever. We know different people have different needs, but please be considerate of these vendors as much as possible and be sure to pack out any waste that you bring in.

Outside alcohol is completely forbidden. Anyone caught with outside alcohol will be asked to leave the festival and will not be permitted to return.

Cultivate welcomes support animals but no other animals will be permitted. As a working farm, it's very important and no acceptions will be made. Sorry.

Check out the tabs at the top of the page! We'll be announcing the daily schedule on August 12th. 

Right here! 

Terms + Conditions