Producer

It started with a personal interest in the magic of healthy flavourful foods, a desire to work in a warm and sunny greenhouse, a compulsion to promote ecological growing practices, and an aspiration to more efficiently grow better food. All this drew Ian Adamson to start experimenting with Microgreens in 1998. By 2004 he felt confident enough to start selling some of his Microgreens. Chef Brad Long was exceptionally supportive by giving him advice and support for enhancing quality and consistency. Ian determined that a state-of-the art glass greenhouse would be the best way to reliably and inexpensively provide the best tasting Microgreens.

In 2010 Ian realized his vision of opening Greenbelt Microgreens. Making use of his considerable experience, he immediately commenced producing and distributing Certified Organic Microgreens. With reliable help from his dedicated staff, they dependably supply many quality retailers and acclaimed chefs directly from Toronto’s Greenbelt. These customers in turn provide incredibly fresh Microgreens for the region’s most discriminating consumers.

Certified Organic production

Reducing
Energy, water, materials and packaging are considered in all our decisions.

Reusing
Growing trays (rather than sending them to landfills) provides many months of reuse. When there is more reusable soil-media than we require, it is further reused by donating this valuable resource to the important non-profit food organizations we support:

The Stop Community Food Centre
Foodshare Toronto
FarmStart
Black Creek Community Farm
Recycling is the reason we only use recyclable PET1 100% post-consumer recycled (PCR) packaging containers. (Note that we do not use “compostable” cornstarch containers because they are 1) made from GMO corn and 2) they must be composted in the presence of sunlight (which is totally impractical).