Crispy Apple Chips

One of the original Mennonite families to settle in the Waterloo region, the Martins have been farming their land since the 1820s. But it wasn’t until the 1970s that Leighton Martin, at the urging of an exchange student, planted his first 100 apple trees alongside his mixed vegetable gardens. Fast forward forty years and the Martin's Family Fruit Farm now harvests apples from more than 700 acres of orchards in southern Ontario. In 2012, the family took another leap of faith by jumping into the value-added market, building a fruit processing plant to produce their own line of apple chips. With four flavours available — original, cinnamon, chocolaty drizzle and caramel dream — the Martins process up to 25,000 apples a day to keep up with demand for their apple chips. Though they grow more than 25 varieties of apples, they prefer the Royal Gala apple's perfect combination of sweetness and firmness to make their crispy chips.

Martin's Apple Chips
martinsapplechips.com | 613.854.3598

Find it at: 1420 Lobsinger Line, Waterloo, Ont.