Re: Canadian tomatoes
The Niagara peninsula (between Hamilton and Niagara Falls is known for it's fruits and vegetables. Roadside stands offer fresh produce each summer. Sadly, the last cannery in the area closed down a few years ago - cheaper to process it elsewhere, then buy it back.
The Niagara peninsula has ideal soil and climate for vineyards and produces some world class wines.
Another exceptional area is the 'Holland Marsh' north of Toronto as you head towards 'Lightfoot country'. The rich soil is as black as soot and very productive. Much of southwestern Ontario is still agricultural - a variety of crops and dairy farming. To the south, the sandy soil around Delhi & Tillsonburg was ideal for growing tobacco. Tobacco drying kilns still dot the roadsides. With decreasing demand for tobacco, some of the farmers experimented with growing peanuts (and soy) which require about the same conditions from what I understand.
One has to be careful when buying canned or processed items labeled "Made In Canada" as the rules are so lax, sometimes just the water used or can they're packed in is Canadian but meets government content rules being 'Canadian'. I've come across a can of pineapples labeled "Product of Canada" and as far as I know, global warming hasn't made us tropical yet!
Canadian folk band 'Tamarack' once lamented in song that if you try to farm in north Ontario all you reap is "fields of rock and snow"
I wonder if Ontario tomatoes throw better too???........
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