Posts Tagged ‘preserves’

The Royal Agricultural Winter Fair, 2011

The Winter Fair is back in Toronto until this Sunday, make sure you head out to enjoy all that it has to offer. From horse jump­ing to but­ter sculpt­ing, the pet­ting zoo, bison burg­ers, award win­ning leeks and more!

 



The Winter Garden

Fiesta Farms employ­ees have been can­ning and pick­ling all sum­mer and fall to pre­serve Ontario’s deli­cious harvest.

stacked boxes of mixed fruit jam made in-house

stacked boxes of mixed fruit jam made in-house

Produce arrives within hours of being picked in the fields, the team gath­ers it up then begins trans­form­ing fruit, berries and veg­eta­bles into Strawberries in Balsamic, Cherries in Ice Wine, Chilly Dilly Green Beans, Sticky Pear Butter, Indian Cauliflower Chutney.….the list goes on.

The amount of local fruits and veg­eta­bles pro­duced from May to October is just too much to eat, so they must be pre­served. Every true can­ner knows that what is good fresh can be bet­ter in a Mason jar.

just a few of the many preserves available

just a few of the many pre­serves available

Fiesta Farms new line of pre­serves, “Take Me Home”, use no fillers or addi­tives and are made with 90% Ontario prod­uct (we had to go out of province for lemons and the like!). Coming across the “Take Me Home” dis­play is like dis­cov­er­ing a boun­ti­ful farmer’s mar­ket in winter.

Take Me Home” pre­serves can be pur­chased seper­ately or as part of a Foodland Ontario basket.