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  • Jocelyn Lamoure, one of Heeman’s daymakers, serves a customer who has choices of berries and cream latte, plants from the garden centre or a quart of 7 am-picked strawberries. The POS screen is programmed with the 30 top-selling items and key category buttons.
  • With real-time environmental monitoring, Jan VanderHout says no chemical controls have been used since opening the propagation facility two years ago. Photo by Glenn Lowson
  • New carbon taxes affect every aspect of horticultural production from the diesel fuel for tractors and transports to cooling costs of long-term storage. Exemptions on purple fuel for agricultural use make only a small dent in the overall equation. With Lake Erie in the background, this grape farmer near Harrow, Ontario is concentrated on the work at hand. The fuel bill will come later. Photos by Glenn Lowson.
  • Green Thyme Herbs poster
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