It also seems odd they would grow a product that had little local demand. I regularly eat hot house tomatoes and English from St Anne MB and some place in Alberta but the prairies have both the demand and the sunlight (even with shorter days).
There a passive year round greenhouses in ALberta:
Cucumbers struck me as a poor choice too. At some point someone should have asked, "What vegetables do Newfoundlanders want to eat?"
Tomatoes might be too obvious but they are also very easy to grow. Interestingly, I was told earlier today that nowhere in Canada makes ketchup, but it is all imported. Go figure.
Heinz used to make ketchup in Southern Ontario (Leamington iirc). When they shut it down, a number of people starting boycotting Heinz Ketchup. I suspect Heinz is still the top brand (French's ketchup really doesn't taste very good) but a lot of people have switched.
Both cucumbers and tomatoes seem awkward and inconvenient to ship or store compared to other products that might return more dollars per kilo or per cubic meter.
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There a passive year round greenhouses in ALberta:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2Pg3gY7wQ4
And it works for oranges in Nebraska as well:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZD_3_gsgsnk&t=2s
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Tomatoes might be too obvious but they are also very easy to grow. Interestingly, I was told earlier today that nowhere in Canada makes ketchup, but it is all imported. Go figure.
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