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Canada's Gold
Pamela Cuthbert - August 2009
Canola is one of those conundrum foods. It’s a heart-smart source of low-saturated-fat cooking oil, it’s affordable and it has a barely-there taste and other characteristics that make it flexible for many uses, particularly frying. But for those concerned about genetically modified organisms, organic ingredients, industrial seed patents and the rising worldwide issue of the farmers’ right to seeds, canola is not entirely wholesome. ...(read more)A Different Kind of Oil Patch
Leslie Scrimshaw - Harrowsmith Country Life Magazine, April 2009
Hawks soar overhead and just past a row of granerie on a farm near High River, Alberta, the Highwood Crossing Farm building emerges ...(read more)25 Best things to Eat in Calgary (excerpt)
Cinda Chavich - Avenue Magazine, Calgary, 2008
Golden, unctuous, nutty oil, cold-pressed from non-GMO seed, is a rare and fascinating product, made only here in Alberta by the Marshall family...(read more)Calgary Stampede puts local spin on menus
John Gilchrist - Calgary Herald, February 24, 2008
The folks at the Calgary Stampede are taking it Slow this year. As in Slow Food. The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth has recently adopted a new culinary program -- entitled "Grown Right. Here."...(read more)Our 11 Fave Farm foodsters (excerpt)
John Gilchrist and Catherine Caldwell - Swerve, October 12, 2007
Breakfast just wouldn’t be breakfast around our house without a big bowl of Highwood Crossing’s Oatmeal topped with fresh fruit....(read more)Alberta Program puts local produce in the spotlight
Cinda Chavich - The Globe and Mail, September 12, 2007
Diners at one of the 120 restaurants across the province participating in the event may try an Alberta beef burger washed down with a local Big Rock Traditional Ale at a pub, an Indian curry featuring local lamb, or an upscale wild boar pâté starter, with Hotchkiss heirloom tomatoes and microgreens, drizzled with nutty Highwood Crossing cold-pressed canola oil at a top dining room...(read more)The oil Jamie Kennedy calls ‘foxy’
Pamela Cuthbert - MacLean’s, June 18, 2007
It was Alberta grain farmers Penny and Tony Marshall of Highwood Crossing Farm south of Calgary who pioneered cold-pressed canola oil in Canada. The couple had switched to an organic-certified operation in 1989, four years before learning about the cold-pressing of seed oils in Germany...(read more)Canada’s ‘Olive Oil’
Lorne McClinton - The Furrow, Spring 2007
Highwood Crossing’s extra virgin, cold-pressed canola oil is becoming the oil of choice for top chefs across Canada...(read more)Canola rises above its humble status
Debbie Olsen - Edmonton Journal, March 19, 2007
An Alberta company is producing gourmet canola oil that is dramatically different. Highwood Crossing's organic extra virgin canola oil has richer colour and flavour and is meant for finishing, rather than frying...(read more)Going Gourmet Gold
Anita Stewart - Canola Digest, Jan/Feb 2007
Michael was the first to introduce me to Highwood Crossing’s cold-pressed canola oil. He is still serving it exclusively with bread and calls it “invaluable as a finishing oil on salads.”...(read more)Dressed to Impress, Canola Oil as Haute Cuisine
Canola Digest, Jan/Feb 2007
Instead of producing standard flavors and packaging, several Canadian companies are marketing a limited supply of cold-pressed canola oils, beautifully bottled to entice the eyes as well as the palette ...(read more)Slow Process, fresh flavour
Mary MacArthur - The Western Producer, December 28, 2006
It’s seed on Monday, pressed on Tuesday, bottled on Wednesday and in stores or restaurants on Friday, says Tony Marshall of Highwood Crossing Farm, who produces the high-quality oil from his farm south of Calgary...(read more)Growing Pains: The organic food industry in Alberta is caught in a classic catch-22
Gina Teel - Calgary Herald, December 17, 2006
Tony Marshall, owner of Highwood Crossing Farm Ltd. , a certified organic grain farm south of Calgary that produces and packages food products from the crops it grows, agrees infrastructure can be an issue, especially for those organic producers located in remote regions of the province...(read more)Local businesses getting the jump on slow food
John Barlow -Okotoks Western Wheel, November 1, 2006
Highwood Crossing has been in the Marshall family for 107 years and several years ago the family returned to farming with more traditional methods – being chemical free...(read more)Fresh Pressed Salad Oils – Our picks of the patch (excerpt)
City Food, Vancouver Summer 2006
For one thing, most Canadian canola oil is produces from GMO crops, for another, it tends to be tasteless. Not so the canola oil from Highwood Crossing...(read more)Canola farmer nurtures niche product
Ed White - Western Producer, April 27, 2006
Tony Marshall’s farm based company is doing exactly what a lot of experts say canola growers need to do. It is producing a unique, high value product that doesn’t seem like boring old canola...(read more)Stocking Up Canuck Style – Canola Oil
Cinda Chavich - City Palate, March/April 2006
While most canola is now grown from genetically modified (GMO) seed, Alberta’s Highwood Crossing produces a unique non-GMO oil that is cold-pressed in small batches...(read more)25 Best things to Eat in the city (excerpt)
Cinda Chavich - Avenue Magazine, Calgary, March 2006
Penny and Tony Marshall offer yet another great way to get your grains. Their Highwood Crossing granola is loaded with organic flakes of rolled oats, flax, and toasted sunflower seeds, then sweetened ever so slightly with good ol’ Canadian maple syrup...(read more)Organic Farming – By Choice
Alex Frazer-Harrison - Edmonton Journal, March 19, 2006
Today, Marshall and his wife, Penny, operate Highwood Crossing Farm Ltd. on the very same location, and over the last 17 years it has grown to become one of Alberta’s most successful organic food producers...(read more)Alt Country
Jim Veenbaas -Alberta Venture, September 2005, Volume 9, issue 7
What started as a last-ditch bid for survival has grown into a thriving food processing business for Tony and Penny Marshall. The owners of Highwood Crossing, south of Calgary, switched to organic farming 15 years ago as a way to keep their small farm, which has been in the family for more than 100 years, viable in a world of ever-expanding farms and large-scale beef and grain production...(read more)Highwood Crossing Farms
Terry Juzak and Jennifer Cockrall-King - Edible Prairie Journal, Number 5 2005, Volume 2
If Italy has its cold-pressed extra-virgin olive oils, then the Prairies have Highwood Crossing’s cold-pressed organic canola oil...(read more)A Slow Food Odyssey: Terra Madre 2004
A world meeting of food communities in Italy
Tony and Penny Marshall - City Palate, March/April 2005
Imagine 5000 sustainable food producers from all over the globe – farmers, ranchers, fishers, bakers, chefs, cheese makers, brewers, vintners and more – together in one room...(read more)Oil business booming for organic farmers
Valerie Fortney - Calgary Herald, September 19, 2004
The tasty and colourful flowers destined for the plates of such upscale Calgary restaurants such as River Café, are just the first hint that this is no ordinary farm. In fact, nothing done on the land Penny shares with husband Tony could be called traditional agriculture....(read more)Critic’s Faves – Canada’s answer to Olive Oil?
Gary Hynes - Eat Magazine, Victoria, BC, March/April 2004
While, as far as I know, there aren’t any olives being grown in Canada, there is plenty of canola. Most canola oil on the market is tasteless, industrially produces and may contain GMOs. It was a revelation, then, to taste the intriguing nutty flavour of this intense, golden-coloured, cold-pressed canola oil from Highwood Crossing...(read more)Prairie to Plate: Calgary chefs are going back to the land, finding and cooking with an abundant harvest of great Alberta foods
Melanie Jones - Where Magazine, Calgary, September/October 2003
Leaving the Ranch, we cross the Highwood River and venture onto a gravel road, passing a Keep Out sign. Tony Marshall strolls up to the truck wearing a Highwood Crossing Farm T-shirt and jokes about the sign as he shakes my hand. The Farm has been in the Marshall family for 103 years...(read more)The Source (excerpt)
Dee Hobsbawn-Smith - City Palate, Taste, Fall 2003
Tony Marshall and his family reside on Highwood Crossing farm south of Calgary, where they produce and bottle cold-pressed oils from two indigenous crops –organic canola and flaxseed...(read more)Tastes of the true north – Canadian cuisine is a medley of local and ethnic flavours
Patricia Hluchy - MacLean’s, July 1, 2003
Smith, a cookbook author who has two shows running on Food Network Canada, shares many chefs' enthusiasm for the small but growing artisan food movement -- small, eco-friendly producers of usually organic cheeses, breads, herbs and salad greens. He speaks excitedly about extra-virgin, cold-pressed, organic canola oil...(read more)GM Crops muddying field of canola production
Dan Lazin - Calgary Herald, March 20, 2003
Highwood Crossing, the Aldersyde farm owned by Marshall and his wife Penny, makes the continent’s only cold-pressed canola oil, a product Tony Marshall says is much closer to an extra-virgin olive oil that a jug of Crisco...(read more)Organic farming tantalizes the taste buds
Tamara Stecyk - Farm Gateway, December 2002/January 2003
Target marketing and a hands-on approach is key to the success of Highwood Crossing Organic Farm in Aldersyde...(read more)Heroes of the Harvest – Meet the People who put good food on our tables (excerpt)
Dee Hobsbawn-Smith - City Palate, September/October 2001
Tony and his family reside on Highwood Crossing Farm south of Calgary, where they produce and bottle cold-pressed organic canold and flaxseed oils. The oil press is closely monitored to eliminate light, heath ad oxidization during pressing...(read more)Alberta food slogan prepared with pride
Dee Hobsbawn-Smith - Calgary Herald, July 5, 2001
One need not look too far to see why made-in-Alberta food products are worth spending time and money on promoting. One great example of a successful association member is the Highwood Crossing Farm south of Calgary...(read more)Buyers sop up farm-fresh canola oil
Gina Teel - Calgary Herald, August 8, 2000
Fussy chefs aren’t the only ones sopping up the locally grown certified organic and non-genetically modified canola and flaxseed oils produced at Highwood Crossing Farm Ltd. in Aldersyde, 30 kilometers south of Calgary...(read more)Feeling at home with organics
Barbara Duckworth - The Western Producer, July 6, 2000
Going organic just felt right for Tony and Penny Marshall. The fifth generation farmers switched to organic production field by field until the transformation was complete eight years ago...(read more)Creative Farmers find their niche
Dee Hobsbawn-Smith - The Costco Connection, March/April 2000
Tony Marshall is an entrepreneur with a cause. He and his home economist wife, Penny, and their two daughters reside on Highwood Crossing Farm south of Calgary, where they produce and bottle cold-pressed organic canola oil and flaxseed oil...(read more)Family Farm wins Innovation Award
Maureen McManus, High River Times, 2000
Penny and Tony Marshall of Highwood Crossing Organic Farm are the recipients of a Growing Alberta 2000 Innovation Award, recently presented by the Honorable Ty Lund, Minister of Agriculture, Food and Rural Development, and Ron Brown, executive director of Growing Alberta...(read more)Canola Royale
Anne Suche - Western Living, April 1998
When Tony Marshall and his wife, Penny, switched to organic growing eight years ago, they returned to farming methods used on the same land by Tony’s great-grandfather...(read more)Whole Foods
Simple, Fresh, Delicious - RPS Media Company, September 19, 2008
Kraft - What's cooking
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