All in the family: And the Ondejko family strongly believes that the Leamington- based company's strongest assets are its employees

摘要

During the past 20 years of writing the Growing in the Green column, I have written about four greenhouse operations and this is my fifth. In each instance, the operations have been family operated with agriculture field crops - a background of fruitsand vegetables - that then shifted to greenhouse production. The Seacliff operation started with Walter Ondejko when he arrived with his parents in 1944 from Czechoslovakia. Escaping the communist regime, they left in the middle of the night, leaving everything behind to start a new life in the land of opportunity - Canada. The Ondejko family started their Canadian life in Leamington where Paul Ondejko bought a farm and grew field corn for two years, then bought a peach farm and ran that for six years, selling the produce to a buyer in Michigan.