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Authentic PEI Experiences - Green Gables Shore
Last updated September 19, 2013. For more information contact Melody Gay, 902-368-6339.
| Description | Contact/Category | Availability | Prices | Notes | |
| Annie's Table - Culinary Studio Annie Leroux |
Visitors to Annie's Table will get a taste of authentic Island flavours through its many hands-on cooking classes. Annie's Table offers an intimate and charming countryside setting and is located in a beautiful converted church in the heart of New London's farming and fishing community. | 1-902-314-9666 website Category: Taste/Cuisine |
1/2 Day reservations required, May 1 - Oct 31 | Price depends on experience | Min 5, Max 15 |
| Art Full of Flavours Artist Anne Gallant |
Let's paint beautiful scenery while enjoying flavours of PEI. Wine and cheese served throughout the class as well as coffee and Blueberry Spritzer, Island cheese, crackers, and a big pot of mussels. All materials are supplied. | 1-902-836-3113 website Category: Arts/Crafts |
Thursdays, 12:45-5:00 pm | $80 including tax | Min 4, Max 8 |
| Just Horsin' Around Bill & Mary Kendrick Experience PEI (Brian Andrews) |
Experience a day in a life of a standard bred horse breeder. Learn all about the breeding business, genetics, feed, training and harness racing. Possibly witness a foal being born. Brian will take you to the barns and the paddocks where you'll be introduced to his yearlings, mares and stallions. Try your hand at the reins; take a leisurely trot around Brian’s private half mile track on a Meridian Farm Sulky. Don’t worry we will keep a close eye on you and the experienced horse you are driving! | 1-866-887-3238 website Category: Nature/Outdoors |
½ Day Mon – Fri, Weekends by special requests, May 1 - Oct 31 | $100/PP (1-4 PPL) $20/PP (Each Additional PPL) | |
| Making History in Rustico Doucet House (Judy MacDonald) |
Become a part of history as you enjoy a period meal you created while dressed in period costume. Travel back in time as you learn the ways of our ancestors at historic Doucet House, the oldest Acadian house on the Island. | 1-902-963-2194 email website Category: Cuisine/Taste |
June 1 - Sept 30 by appointment | $170 (2 PPL) | Min 2 |
| Pick & Press (Apple Picking/Cider Making) Bill and Mary Kendrick Experience PEI (Mark Ashley) |
Pick your own apples at the Wintermoor Orchard with Mark Ashley. Hear how the Wintermoor Orchard got its name and the reason why Mark is so passionate about growing apples, pears, cherries and plums. Once the picking is done you will bring your apples to the cider plant where you will wash and run your apples through the pulp machine then create your own cider by putting the pulp into the cider press. Share in some hot mulled cider & warm apple dumplings. You'll leave with a jug of cider and a 3 lbs bag of apples | 1-866-887-3238 website Category: Cuisine/Taste |
1/2 Day Available: (Beginning Late August) Tues, Wed, Thurs 9:30am - 12pm | $75/PP (2-3 ppl) $60/PP (4-7 ppl) $50/PP (8 ppl ) | |
| Piping Plover Patrol Bill & Mary Kendrick Experience PEI (Linda Thomas) |
Play a role in saving Piping Plover birds by learning more about them and their plight .You can help Linda Thomas, Parks Canada’s Piping Plover specialist, to save the piping plovers in the Prince Edward Island National Park. You will help monitor nesting areas, checking to make sure the birds are safe and collecting information that will be used in the ongoing recovery effort. You'll join Linda at the Dalvay Operations Centre for a behind-the-scenes look at the scope of work being done in protection, conservation and monitoring. | 1-866-887-3238 website Category: Nature/Outdoors |
Afternoons by appointment 2 hours May – Mid Aug | $45/PP (1-6 PPL, includes entrance fee to the Prince Edward Island National Park) | Inquire about cost for larger group |
| Prince Edward Island Culinary Adventures Ross Munroe |
Featuring once-in-a-lifetime, hands-on culinary adventures. Go to the source of the food, the ocean, the land. Meet farmers and fishermen, harvest with them, cook and celebrate food together. Deep-sea, shark, bluefin tuna adventures available. Accommodations/Global private airfare options arranged. | 1-902-394-5910 1-902-628-8488 (off-season) website Category: Cuisine/Taste |
1/2 day and full-day experiences. April 30 - Oct 15 | Check website for pricing and scheduling | |
| Contact: | Melody Gay (MLGAY@gov.pe.ca) 1-902-368-6339 |
Janet Wood (JEWOOD@gov.pe.ca) 1-902-368-5508 |


