TOP ORGANIC FARM COMPANIES

Rebecca Moses, by Groom & Style

Highwood Crossing Foods was named one of the top Organic Farm Companies in the world by Groom & Style an independent online review group. They have us in #3 spot on a list of 18 other organic companies… (read more)

Good Clean Food

Susan Mate, Routes Magazine

There is work to be done in educating people about the movement toward healthy, clean, local food, but there are also many gains of late.  Nearly 40 food producers, farmers and like-minded merchants recently joined forces to create a local chapter of Slow Food International … (read more)

Canada’s Gold

Pamela Cuthbert, Maclean’s

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.  That’s where cold-pressed canola, sunshine-hued and with heady floral notes that reveal the plant’s true nature, comes into play. As rare as hen’s teeth, it’s making a splash thanks to two small-scale producers in Canada: Jason Persall in Ontario and innovators Penny and Tony Marshall, south of Calgary, who happen to be smack in the heart of canola country. … (read more)

A Slow Food Odyssey: Terra Madre 2004

Tony and Penny Marshall, City Palate

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. Now visualize this very unique and independent assembly working in harmony to develop strategies that promote the distinctiveness and diversity of their own lands and products, while concurrently striving to counteract economic globalization. In October 2004, we attended just such an event: Terra Madre … (read more)