Some Quebec vegetable producers are looking to the warmer climates of California to extend their growing season long past the frost has settled in at home.
VegKiss, a major Quebec-based producer of broccoli and cauliflower, has forged a unique kind of business partnership in order to sell year-round. For 25 years, VegKiss has partnered with Bengard Ranch, a large-scale producer just south of San Francisco, in Salinas, to supply Quebecers with their daily dose of vitamins.
California is the breadbasket of the United States — its vegetable production accounts for half of the country's agricultural sector. That's what attracted VegKiss's president, Daniel Bérard, to Bengard Ranch in the first place.
"They have an enormous production capacity. They produce in one day what Quebec can produce a year. It's phenomenal," Bérard said.
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