September 2014

According to investmentwatch.com, the price of meat, chicken, fish and eggs is soaring globally. Here in Canada, meat prices alone have risen 7% in just the past  year. That has sent a lot of consumers—including your “Good For You” reviewer—searching for vegetarian alternatives to these costly sources of protein.

Thankfully, I have discovered Edamame. (pronounced Eda-mamy) Eda-whaty you ask?  Allow me to enlighten you.  Edamame are immature green soybeans, grown as a vegetable. Popular for thousands of years in Asia, the brilliant green pods are grown just to the point where they are edible—this … READ MORE ●

An Alvinston-area farming operation is being credited as the first producer of 100% naturally-grown edamame in Canada.

Ninety-nine per cent of the edamame, a specialized soybean, consumed in Canada is imported from China.

Yet MacKellar Farms grows a product that’s GMO-free and wholly owned and operated in Canada.

Owner is Jacob MacKellar who says while many Canadians balk at buying other produce, such as apples, from China, they don’t give a second thought to the origins of their edamame.

“We’re a fourth-generation Canadian farm that proudly distributes a premium legume from our … READ MORE ●