Farms in BC: A family business grounded in agriculture
Brothers Nav and Taj Sekhon have been actively involved in blueberry farming since they were young children, learning the profession alongside their father Himmat and their uncles and cousins. The brothers play more of a management role now for the Sekhon farms in Surrey. But blueberry farming is not the …
Goji Berries Spark Niche Market for the Fraser Valley
By: Jen Muranetz For more than 25 years, Peter Breederland has been a pepper farmer, growing yellow, orange and red sweet peppers on his Aldergrove family farm. “BC [has] such a good growing climate for peppers,” he boasts. You could say Breederland has pepper farming down to a science. So …