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    • Home
    • About Us
    • Contact Us
    • How to Support Us
    • President's Letters
    • Policy Papers
    • Farm Land
    • Niagara Fruit Land
    • Events Now
    • Greenbelt & Hwy 413
    • Fight for the Fruitlands
    • Tributes
    • April 27 Presentation
    • Provincial Policy Review
    • Conservation Videos
  • Home
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • How to Support Us
  • President's Letters
  • Policy Papers
  • Farm Land
  • Niagara Fruit Land
  • Events Now
  • Greenbelt & Hwy 413
  • Fight for the Fruitlands
  • Tributes
  • April 27 Presentation
  • Provincial Policy Review
  • Conservation Videos

About Us

The extraordinary rate of urban sprawl over the best lands in Canada, the fruit lands of Niagara, led in 1976 to the formation of the Preservation of Agricultural Lands Society (PALS). Backed by many urban and rural members, PALS Board members and volunteers have worked hard to preserve the unique fruit lands and the agricultural industry in Niagara and to promote food land preservation province and country-wide. PALS is based in Niagara-on-the Lake, but has reached out over the years to help other farmland groups across Ontario and Canada to protect Tender Fruit, Grape and Prime Class 1-3 Farmlands.

Accomplishments

  • Education of the public regarding the value of farming and farm lands,
  • Monitoring of the 'permanent' boundaries bordering tender fruit and grape land,
  • Education of all levels of government regarding the unique nature of the very much threatened tender fruit and grape lands, which led to stronger legislative protections eg .the 2005 Greenbelt Act, Bill 135, within which Niagara urban boundaries abutting fruit land will be "permanent"
  • The initiation and development of the Niagara Tender Fruit Land Program (adopted by the Provincial government in 1994 and cancelled in 1995), whereby restrictive covenants were to be placed on tender fruit lands to preserve them in 'perpetuity'.
  • Helping the Ontario Toxic Waste Coalition prevent a hazardous waste site and facility in the farm community of West Lincoln
  • Defence of Niagara fruit land in 1978,79, and 80 Ontario Municipal Board Hearings, where PALS won over 3,600 acres of the 7,500 acres of fruit land under dispute,

About Niagara Fruit Lands - a historic overview

Publications

  • Semi-annual newsletter
  • 2017 Taste Niagara cook book- 200 fruit recipes and a history of fruit growing in Niagara (previous editions 1983/84/86/2004)
  • 2016 video 'Pick and Choose', to Preserve Niagara Fruit lands (previous edition 1986)
  • 2012, Case for a Renewed Tender Fruitland Program - 219 Years of Fruitland History - Gracia Janes
  • 2004/05 see list link to "position papers"
  • 1992, Chapter 13 (The Fight for Fruit Lands) Environmental Stewardship - Sally Lerner, University of Waterloo
  • 1991, Elementary School Teaching kit (out of print)
  • 1988 , Niagara Conservation Strategy (out of print)

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