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CAN (ON): Premier’s Award for winter strawberry grower

Fresh-picked local strawberries in the winter are no longer a fantasy in Essex County.

A Leamington greenhouse is growing strawberries and gearing up to have its berries in grocery stores by Christmas.

“I see it as a crop of the future,” Duffy Kniaziew, president of Orangeline Farms, said Tuesday.

The strawberries at Orangeline Farms are marketed as Zing! Healthy Foods and have been sold in Metro stores and at the greenhouse at Highway 77 and Road 14 north of Leamington. Locals already know about the winter strawberries and some will make a special trip to buy them at the greenhouse that has been working on the crop for six years.

“They’re almost like sugar bombs. They’re extremely sweet,” Kniaziew said.

The greenhouse strawberries grown in a region dominated by greenhouse tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers recently earned Orangeline Farms a 2016 Premier’s Award for Agri-Food Innovation Excellence.

Read more at the Windsor Star
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