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February 26, 2019 |
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A massive fire ripped through a family-owned greenhouse complex in Laval. The fire broke out around 4 a.m. at Serres Sylvain Cleroux Inc. The business was closed when the fire started and there was no one inside.
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The Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers' Association has a new chair and vice chair – grape grower Bill George Jr., who takes over from Jan VanderHout, and apple grower Charles Stevens.
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Long-time horticultural labour issues advisor Ken Linington is the winner of this year’s Ontario Fruit and Vegetable Growers’ Association (OFVGA) Industry Award of Merit, presented at the OFVGA annual banquet in Niagara Falls last week.
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A new disease webinar series has launched, inviting experts from south of the border to weigh in on ornamental disease issues in the greenhouse.
Organized by Dr. Sarah Jandricic, greenhouse floriculture IPM specialist at the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs (OMAFRA), and supported by Greenhouse Canada magazine, the webinar series targets key disease challenges in greenhouse ornamental production.
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“It’s kind of like going to a wedding, except nobody gets married,” says Dejan Kristan describing Petals & Plates, a series of dinner events that highlight Canadian flower growers. “With the younger generation, millennials specifically, it’s all about experiences [...] and flowers are all about how they make you feel.”
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Yes, the millennial gardener, the eco gardener, and late bloomer coming into gardening as they retire, are markets that we should focus on, but one of the biggest opportunities is the lazy gardener. We often misread them as gardeners who do not have time to spend on their gardens, but there is money to be made by focusing on this category.
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