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Ontario’s Salad Bowl – at a Cineplex near you!

My husband and I went to the movies on Friday night – and during the ever longer pre-movie showcase of commercials and ads, I was quite pleasantly surprised to see one featuring the Holland Marsh and Ontario farmer Jason Verkaik.

Verkaik owns Carron Farms near Bradford, where he grows a wide variety of vegetables, although specializes in carrots and onions. It was Carron Farms that hosted the Eastern Canada Farm Writers Association for their annual meeting last month, and where we had the chance to learn a bit more about the Marsh, a wonderfully fertile area only 40 minutes north from down town Toronto.
Continue reading Ontario’s Salad Bowl – at a Cineplex near you!

What’s wrong with this picture?

That’s what we wanted to know about the picture below when a group of us from the Eastern Canada Farm Writers Association recently paid a visit to an onion farm in the Holland Marsh. To us, it seemed like a bin of perfectly good onions, just waiting for someone to bag, buy, cook and eat.

But that’s not so, according to Jamie Reaume, Executive Director of the Holland Marsh Growers Association. Judge for yourself: Continue reading What’s wrong with this picture?

Telling the story of food and farming

in-the-field The Holland Marsh area north of Toronto was the setting for a farm tour with Toronto area food writers in early June.

A group of about 30 food media and home economists – involved in everything from writing articles to recipe testing to authoring cook books – spent the day experiencing Ontario food and farms. Continue reading Telling the story of food and farming

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