Featuring 100% Ontario ingredients this delicious and healthy treat is the first of its kind. No additives, preservatives or trans-fats, there is nothing in this bar that was not grown on an Ontario farm!

Crafted with care at Shandiz Natural Foods, a local processing facility, this granola bar will give you a boost with Ontario cranberries, and cherries and apples from Ontario's Greenbelt. Organic Ontario oats and Greenbelt honey are the only other ingredients!

All the ingredients in this bar have been sourced directly from Ontario farmers so you can feel good about eating well and helping to keep local agriculture strong! Sell them in schools as a lunchtime snack, use them as a fundraising tool to promote awareness of the Greenbelt and healthy eating, or get some to take home for your own enjoyment.

Ingredients

The oats in the Go Ontario! bar are certified organic and grown on Grassroots Organics farm in Desboro, Ontario. Grassroots Organics is a family owned operation nestled between the Niagara Escarpment, the Saugeen Valley, and the shores of Georgian Bay in the heart of Ontario's fertile farmland.They have a farm store where they sell all kinds of local grains, meats, produce and eggs.

The cherries are from Cherry Lane Farms in Vineland Station, Niagara Region. This part of the Greenbelt is famous for tender fruit and a wonderful place to visit and pick your own! Cherry Lane is famous for healthy cherry products available from the farm, at certain retail outlets and online.

The honey is from a Greenbelt farm just outside Beamsville. Charlie Bee honey is one of the largest apiaries in Ontario. The owner, Charlie Parker, has wanted to be a beekeeper since he was 13 years old. He now has bees all over Ontario who are busy pollinating crops all throughout the growing season.

There area also cranberries in the Go Ontario! bar, which come from Bala, the cranberry capital of Ontario! The Wahta Mohawks own and operate the Iroquois Cranberry Growers, which is open to the public from spring to fall. You can also order their cranberry products online or find them in certain health food stores.

The apples in the Go Ontario! Bar are coming from Torrie Warner, who owns Warner Farms in Beamsville, which is also in the Greenbelt. They grow all kinds of fruit, are are open to the public, but you can also find them during the growing season at farmers markets almost every day of the week! These apples are then dehydrated by “Cheese of Canada”, a local company based in Oakville Ontario. The owner, Gurth, purchases apples and pears directly from Ontario farmers and sells them as delicious 'County Natural' dehydrated treats.

Important note!  This granola bar was created in a facility that also processes soy, peanuts, tree nuts and sesame (although it does not contain nuts as ingredients).  This is an important note for concerns around nut-related allergies.  Since we are working with a small local processor, Shandiz Natural Foods, on this project, accessing a nuts free processing line was not possible.

Ordering:

We are pleased to meet to provide more information about how to order the new bar!  Please call 905-274-6222 or email Sarah Fairley, Youth and Local Food Manager for more information.

Schools...don't forget! EcoSource is also available to provide hands-on education and resources on the Greenbelt and the benefits of eating locally. Bring us in for workshops or an assembly to help raise student awareness of the benefits of these delicious granola bars! Contact our Local Food Educator Melissa Benner  for more information.