Heatherlea Farm Shoppe

Our mission: to raise and craft the highest quality artisan meats, meals, snacks and treats using clean ingredients and local products. We are a family, a farm, and proud members of your community. And we’ve been here for quite some time. So how did the farm shoppe come to be?

• The McArthur family, originally from Scotland, arrived in Canada (in the Caledon area) in 1871, where they established a herd of dairy cattle. The other side of our family, the Newhouses, were Empire Loyalists; they’ve been farming in Canada for more than two centuries.
• Gord’s father, Don McArthur, passed away in 1962 (when Gord was just seven) and the dairy herd was sold. Helen, Gord’s mother, later married Glen McBride (who also had a dairy herd), and this is how Gord came to live on the farm that today is the home of Heatherlea Farm Shoppe and our black angus herd.
• Gords’ passion was beef cattle. When Glen’s dairy herd was sold, Gord took to raising registered Aberdeen Black Angus cattle for their quality meat. The Angus cattle breed is native to Scotland, with the first of the Angus breed having been introduced to Guelph, Ontario in 1860.
• Our farm, Heatherlea Acres, located on the Niagara Escarpment and within in Green Belt, is perfectly suited for the production of a cow-calf operation and grass-fed beef. The cows can harvest grass from the rough terrain that large eight-wheel farm tractors cannot maneuver over.