Prince Charles is pic­tured pur­chas­ing a bag of organic, heir­loom beets as part of the Grow for The Stop cam­paign while tour­ing the Royal Winter Fair recently. The cam­paign is one we are cur­rently involved in pro­mot­ing at Fiesta Farms.

Prince Charles buys some New Farm beets

“Nice to see the prince tak­ing an inter­est in the part­ner­ship we’ve devel­oped with The New Farm up in Creemore. In this photo you’ll notice the Prince hold­ing a “Grow for The Stop” branded pack­age of beets that just hit the pro­duce aisle at Fiesta Farms this week.” says Nick Saul, the Executive Director of The Stop, who sent us the photo.

10% of pro­ceeds go back to The Stop to pur­chase organic food from The New Farm for their food pro­grams. Ensuring peo­ple who use the food banks and other food ser­vices get access to food of the high­est quality.

“Just after this photo was taken,” Nick con­tin­ues, “the Prince appar­ently tore into the bag and started in on the beets. He was over­heard mut­ter­ing “deli­cious, deli­cious” for the rest of his time at the royal win­ter fair. Camilla liked them too.”

Did any of you get a chance to see Prince Charles or Camilla dur­ing their time in Toronto? Let us know all about it. We’re big fans of his sup­port of organic farm­ing.