Where do Canada’s fruits and vegetables come from? Interactive map

From here. https://magazine.alumni.ubc.ca/2025/business-environment-life/where-do-canadas-fruits-and-vegetables-come-new-website-maps-flow

Like Google maps for your dinner plate, a new UBC project shows where 34 popular fruits and vegetables regularly consumed by Canadians come from.

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Canada Food Flows, a new project from the University of British Columbia, can show you.

The interactive website maps, for the first time, the flow of 34 popular fruits and vegetables into and across Canadian provinces over 13 years, revealing in unprecedented detail how interconnected international and inter-provincial food systems are.

Canadian food flow website for more info and a cool interactive map thingy

https://canadafoodflows.ca/


I found this quite interesting when planning out this years garden.  

That's very interesting!
Is there a breakdown for how things are shipped? by truck or rail? by air?

That would be really neat to know.

r ranson wrote:I found this quite interesting when planning out this years garden.  

Yes, very instructive. The old trading system was certainly convenient and mutually beneficial. Big changes are afoot, regarding both imports and possibly an artificially induced recession. My buying habits have shifted already, and my garden planning will also.

I was surprised to learn recently that Ontario exports a lot of greenhouse veggies to the US (presumably mostly northeast?).

BC used to be the hothouse tomato capital of north america for quite a while.  The greenhouses and warm winters made it very economical to grow year 'round.

But eventually the greenhouses got converted to other crops.

I recall BC hot house tomatoes. Peppers too. They were excellent -- picked ripe before shipping since they could be in our stores in 24 hours, unlike stuff from farther away. When I saw the BC sticker I knew I was getting top notch stuff.