The Experimental Farm annex.

"Smart farm proposal anchors Ottawa's bid for piece of $950 M fund" December 9, 2017, CBC News. A photo of Jan Harder.

Barrhaven City Councillor Jan Harder: "Between the Canadian Food Inspection Agency field and our farm field, we're talking close to 3,000 acres, north of suburbia, north of Barrhaven." she said. "It's amazing we have that." What do you mean, Jan Harder, when you say "our farm field"  and "we have that"? The Greenbelt Research Farm is managed by the National Capital Commission. The citizens of Canada own this land, not the City of Ottawa. savecfbrockcliffe.

The City of Ottawa has identified more than 13,700 acres of the Greenbelt...that could be developed without damaging its overall integrity. (Ottawa Greenbelt Development Under Review-June 17, 2008.) Environment Minister John Baird and Environment Minister Jim Prentice vowed to fight any move to sell off the property.

Developer William Teron wanted to sell off parts of the Greenbelt, including property that Jan Harder called "Our farm field." "Mr. Teron envisioned small villages of 5,000 to 10,000 people each, which would be developed around roads such as Woodroffe and Merivale." "Here, a million people could connect." (Ottawa Citizen, 2007-11-20.) 

The Research Farm is a National Interest Land Mass and Greenbelt land, therefore it cannot be sold or subdivided by the National Capital Commission.

The Carling Avenue Farm and land adjacent to Dow's Lake cannot be sold either, for many reasons:

1.) The Greber Report of 1950 designated 900 square miles of greenspace in the National Capital a memorial in perpetuity to Canadians who were killed fighting in foreign wars. 

2.) A 1954 Privy Council Order-in-Council designated the Main Farm off-limits to residential and commercial developers.

3.) It is a National Interest Land Mass.

4.)  Federal Ministers of Agriculture and Ministers of Public Works promised that once the World War 11 Temporary Buildings were torn down, the only buildings permitted on Queen Juliana Park would be Agriculture Canada buildings.

5.)  In 1976, the Minister of Public Works gave Queen Juliana Park to the People of Canada--- read the petition on the Internet: "Stop the rezoning of Parks to Condos, Queen Juliana in Little Italy." 

The Experimental Farm was expanded in 1958 via a Privy Council of Canada Order-in-Council.

During the 1990's the Greenbelt Farm was decommissioned, the animals were auctioned off and barns were flattened.

"Behind closed doors, with no one allowed to watch and listen, members of the National Capital Commission ponder making deals with Nortel, battling El Nino and buying the Experimental Farm for $1 dollar." by Tom Spears, the Ottawa Citizen, August 24, 1998. The land is bounded by Hunt Club Road, Woodroffe Avenue, Fallowfield Road and Greenbank Road.

 Below: An October 8, 1974 front page article in the Ottawa Citizen: