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“ Being on the farm reminded me of my experience as a young boy growing up in Greece, and my grandfather had a decent sized farm for a poor village guy,” he reveals.“ I always remembered that the fruit tasted outstanding, and my grandfather would always tell me that it’ s because Greece is so sun-kissed that the fruit is allowed to ripen in its natural state. We were never able to experience that kind of fresh fruit profile in Canada due to the climate. I thought –‘ why can’ t people eat this kind of fruit straight out of a bag?’.
“ In 2004, I left the company I worked for and branched out on my own. I started Nature’ s Touch in the basement of my house, working with a little repacking room in a cold storage facility in Montreal. I singlehandedly packed our first six pallets of strawberries – Camarosa strawberries from Argentina. I made sure that we worked foodchainmagazine. com 33