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Welcome to Holland Marsh Gold . com
 
Your best source for the freshest local food, the Holland Marsh is Canada's very own ‘salad bowl’.

The community of some 125 farms, farmers and farm families - located just 40 kilometres north of Toronto's CN Tower - has for decades been considered a crown jewel of agricultural production.

• The "Holland Marsh Agricultural Impact Study" is now online (in pdf)

• Make your voice heard - Say No to the Gas-Fired Power Plant in Holland Marsh - Sign the petition today! [Green party leader Mike Schreiner's Remarks]

• HMGA Members: Don't miss the 10th annual Agri-Food Ski Day! - February 18th.

• Posts by Avia Eek: Pulling the plug on the Holland Marsh power plant - January 29, 2010, Democracy lives in King Township - January 12, 2010, You Can't Eat Energy - December 19, 2009

• Hurricane Hazel is but one weather phenomena that has been encountered over the past 60 years and is problematic of when development, even agriculture, takes place on a FLOOD PLAIN. Thank you Environment Canada for that gentle reminder in the midst of a heated provincial discussion. Hurricane Hazel - Timeline of Storm Events

• To your health!: HMGA's Vegetable Nutritional Values (pdf) Vegetable Recipes from Foodland Ontario

• ...old farmer's advice

• More: In the News

HMGA Members click here. Visitors please enjoy our site and learn more about the farmers of the Marsh. Source local vegetables from Marsh farms in our growing farmers' markets, online and on-farm web pages.
 
From the HMGA:

• Gas pipeline: HMGA 2nd Response - June 4, 2009 (pdf)
• Gas pipeline: HMGA 1st Response - April 16, 2009 (pdf)
• HMGA Request: MOE Study of impact of Peaker Plant - December 17, 2008 (pdf)
• What is Premiere McGuinty Thinking? (pdf)

Check back for new photo additions and to keep up to date on the news from the Marsh and the HMGA.
 
You might already be enjoying Holland Marsh goodness and not even know it! Look for restaurants with fresh food from the Holland Marsh on the menu and Holland Marsh Gold in the produce section. Ask for it by name, and savour our part of Ontario everyday!
 
Enjoy!
 
The members of the Holland Marsh Growers' Association would like to thank the Friends of the Greenbelt Foundation for their kind contribution toward the organization.
 
Website by: Donald Wiedman Communications, Toronto