Celebrating locally grown
Village Farms celebrates first annual BC veggie day
Highlights of this event included a farmers market, live entertainment, a pop-up greenhouse and ‘good bug’ factory focusing on the sustainable and environmentally friendly methods of greenhouse growing. Dirk De jong, Head Farmer at Village Farms Delta, BC greenhouses was on hand along with several other Village Farms growers to talk with event goers about locally grown greenhouse produce.
In addition, Village Farms will feature a ‘BC Greenhouse Grown’ seal on their tomato packaging sold to local retailers throughout the greater Vancouver area so consumers can easily identify locally grown produce.
According to Dirk de Jong, Vice President and Regional Facility Manager for Village Farms, “We are pleased to be part of the first annual BC Veggie Day celebration. There is no doubt BC consumers want to support locally grown products as well as BC farmers. As one of the largest producers of greenhouse grown tomatoes in BC we are happy to give consumers the information they desire, and we want to thank BCGGA for initiating the first annual BC Veggie day in celebration of greenhouse grown”.
For more information:
Helen L. Aquino
Village Farms International
Tel: +1 407.936.1190 x312*
Email: [email protected]
