Where is Canada's "produce belt"? (house, employment)

[Mouldy Old Schmo]

What part(s) of Canada supply most of the nation's fruits and vegetables?

[burloak]

Good question....

Used to be Niagara Region of Ontario.

Was known for growing peaches (best peaches north of Georgia)
Apples, cherries, you name it.

Unfortunately, Niagara area, I've noticed, seems to have switched over
to growing grapes, many wineries now dot the region.

BC's Okanagan valley also is another of Canada's big fruit growing areas.
Apples are the big thing there....BC Golden Delicious, yum

Like Niagara, the Okanagan now has it's fare share of wineries too.

Quebec and Nova Scotia have apple growing areas too.
Notably Quebec's Mont Ste Hilare area and Nova Scotia's Annapolis Valley.

Sadly most fruit in canadian grocery stores comes in from around the world, mostly from the US.

[lucknow]

I don't know what the % is but I can tell you that Canada imports a huge % of our fruits and vegetables from the USA, Mexico and other southern countries. Of course different produce has different rates of importation. 100% of all citrus is imported for instance. We do grow quite a lot of fruits and vegetables here in Southern Ontario in a few different regions. I live in a fruit belt here in the Niagara region. Tender fruit is a big thing here. Peaches, cherries and especially grapes. It seems that a lot of the fruit land is being planted in grapes as time goes on. Cheries are a good example of why we don't grow more of our own fruit. The big food distributers, wholesalers and retailers can buy cherries for way way way less from the USA than our farmers can produce them for. Because of this fact the acreage of cherries decreases year by year. Apples are the same. Grapes though are on the rise because of the wine industry that has regulations that forbids foreign grapes in order to get the quality assurance lable the vintners desire.

We grow seasonal vegetables in the Holland Marsh just north of Toronto and a lot of field vegetables are grown in Norfolk county along the shores of Lake Erie. Ontario produces a lot of potatoes and although there are lots of US spuds in the stores I always buy grown in On. potatoes. Another big potato growing area is in the area west of the Holland marsh around the town of Shelburne On. That's where they grow a lot of spuds and build a lot of Toyotas LOL.

There is a lot of fruit and vegetable growers in the lower mainland All around Vancouver. They especially produce a lot of cranberries and blueberries. There is also a lot of fruit grown in the Okanagan valley of BC. I say, "a lot" but in reality it's probably 5% of what Washington state produces.

[Average Fruit]

Good things grow in Ontario

[tarp]

Haldimand, Norfolk, Leamington, areas like that. Also plenty in Niagara Region but mostly grapes as mentioned earlier.

[zortation]

Where is Canada's "produce belt"?

California.

[Magnatomicflux]

Originally Posted by Average Fruit

Good things grow in Ontario

Originally Posted by tarp

Haldimand, Norfolk, Leamington, areas like that. Also plenty in Niagara Region but mostly grapes as mentioned earlier.

Yup. Essex county grows all sorts of stuff. We have some of the most fertile land in the country, we have the longest growing season, and a favorable climate to boot(think northern California).

[netwit]

Fruits go to BC and Ontario. Vegetables are grown almost everywhere in the south. Canada even exports some vegetables. https://www.cpma.ca/en_stats_top_ten_veggies.asp

[Oleg Bach]

HOLLAND LANDING....Just north of Toronto..the black soil is 3 feet deep..it is the finest production area for vegetables in the world- That area south of it and to the west and east...has the best soil on the planet...BUT urban sprawl and greed have destroyed most of Ontario's best farm land- Ontario on it's own could feed all of Canada- not anymore...Such a foolish waste of resource. Now I pick up a piece of food...and it is marked "Chile" - what was abundant in Ontario is now flown at great cost a distance of over 12000 miles-

I rented a beautiful farm house in Markham Ontario...The soil was so fantastic that produce was wasted out of sheer abundance- That was only 6 years ago- I go there now and the farm is gone- dense housing full of people from Asia are there- and they have no idea what used to be there....FOOD....now it is just pavement...strip malls and bad housing for immigrants we did not need,

[tarp]

Come on now... Housing in an area near a major employment centre is a better use of land than farming. There's plenty of fertile soil in Southern Ontario, all along the shores of Lake Erie from Windsor to Dunnville. Plus plenty of fertile land further south in the U.S. which can be easily trucked to anywhere in Canada.