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"Bevo Farms: "One of Canada’s great business export success stories"

Jack Benne’s dream of supplying top quality plants to the horticulture industry almost didn’t become a reality. His life’s ambition came to a crossroad in 1993 when he had to decide whether to sell up and forget his dream or press on and take a leap of faith.

The decision, as it turned out, all hinged on his son Leo, and something he said to a pastor during wedding preparations. Leo told the minister that one day he hoped to become one of the best plant propagators in Canada. Now Benne never knew this about Leo. But when the pastor mentioned it to him in a casual conversation, it changed everything.

Instead of selling the farmland he owned at Glover Road in Langley, Benne decided to go into business with Leo and start a plant propagation business — one that would supply top quality food plants for the commercial greenhouse industry, as well as floral plants for home gardens.

That was in 1993. Today, Bevo Farms is one of the top plant propagation company in North America, producing hundreds of thousands of tomato, pepper and cucumber plants for the commercial greenhouse industry plus 64,000 chrysanthemums and more than 100,000 poinsettias a year.

The company also grows thousands of annuals — geraniums, begonias, dahlias and so on — that get packaged into hanging baskets and containers and are shipped to the U.S. as well as local outlets.

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