Growers Serve Specialty Markets - Both couples, coincidentally, are former Mennonite missionaries

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Although they don't know each other, Pat and Cammie Wohlgemuth and Murray and Lisa Warkentin have much in common. Both couples have had experience doing missionary work for their Mennonite community in Third World countries, and both returned afterwards to the same rural southern Manitoba region with the idea of operating their own commercial hydroponic greenhouse. "We got the idea from friends while we were in Haiti (as missionaries)," said Murray Warkentin. Their 12,000-square-foot Greenland Gardens, near the town of Landmark (which is about a 40-minute drive southeast of Winnipeg), is in its seventh year of operation. The Warkentins grow tomatoes and cucumbers, which they sell to restaurants and organic food stores in Winnipeg.