Lakefield Caterer Bringing Wales and Farm-To-Table Food Background to Peterborough County

Wales’ Josh Keepfer had culinary training in Venice, London and Charleston, N.C. but since making Lakefield his home roughly four years ago, he’s brought his background into Kitchen Farmacy, a farm-to-table catering business for Peterborough County.

Chasley Keepfer (left), Hadley Keepfer, 4 (middle) and Josh Keepfer (right) examining the five acres of vineyards full of developing grapes. The family owns roughly 40 ducks to act as natural insecticides. Photo by David Tuan Bui.

The business was launched in 2018, Keepfer said Kitchen Farmacy is reflective of his farm life upbringing as a child and with on-site farms at restaurants he worked in Wales. He wanted to bring that same experience of food into Peterborough County.

“I've been very lucky and very fortunate growing up as a child to be living on a farm and experiencing farm life,” said Keepfer.

He says the farm life helped him appreciate where his food came from and the effort needed to create it. The products at Kitchen Farmacy are locally sourced through several businesses, farmers and butchers.

“We used to go out and feed apples from the orchards to the pigs and knowing that we needed to get them fat and juicy for slaughter. I know it sounds gruesome but it's part of kitchen life and part of being farm to table.”

Keepfer moved to Peterborough Country after meeting his wife Chasley in Whistler. She was from the Lakefield area and moved to Lakefield with her to start a family and eventually open the business.

Kitchen Farmacy offers take-home meals, a catering service and meal plans with all the food made on site. The business also has its own winery called Cheeky Duck Vineyard consisting of five acres behind the catering service building. The winery has five different varieties of wine such as Pinot Grigio and Chardonnay where grapes were planted last year.

The business wants to expand with a new on-site restaurant next spring however few details were released. The restaurant will offer wine tasting from their vineyards.

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Peterborough County Cattlemen's Association Hosting Beef on a Bun Drive-Thru This Saturday

The Peterborough County Cattlemen’s Association is holding their annual ‘Beef on a Bun Drive-Thru’ on Saturday.

Photo courtesy of Peterborough County Cattlemen's Association.

The drive-thru event is held outdoors as a COVID-19 precaution.

Foodies are invited to bring their own lawn chairs to enjoy their meal on site. For $15 at the gate (debit or cash), customers are sold beef on a bun, a bag of potato chips, Timbits and a choice of water or pop.

The event is from 4 to 7 p.m. at the Mi-way Beef Farm at 2264 Chemong Rd. in Selwyn Township just north of Portage Place.

The Peterborough County 4H Beef club will have their Beef projects on display during the event.

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Candy Shop Flossophy Features Collaborative Milkshake With Fresh Radio

A new collaborative milkshake named after 100.5 Fresh Radio hosts Pete Dalliday and Dani Guppy has been created by candy store Flossophy.

The store sells cotton candy, fudge, flavoured popcorn, sundaes, shaved ice and other confectionaries. Photo by Luke Best.

The milkshake was made to help highlight some of Peterborough’s notable and community figures in a fun way.

“We want to be that place where you can get an ice cream. It's just around the corner from your house and have a fun neighbourhood hang,” said Melissa McIver, shop supervisor. “To be able to collab with the people that are important to our city, that's really important to us.”

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The milkshake is a cake batter flavour consisting of vanilla ice cream with confetti sprinkles mixed into it. The shake is topped with more sprinkles, whipped cream and finished with a candy kebob.

The flavour is a wordplay of their morning show entitled, ‘Fresh Mornings with Pete & Dani’ with a ‘fresh baked’ birthday cake flavour.

The shake remains on the menu for the next weeks but could remain until the end of summer. The store is considering keeping the theme of naming shakes or other products after notable Peterborough residents in the near future.

“We love collaborations with all the local stores that we have nad all the local amazing dignitaries so it would be fun,” said McIver.

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