Peter Quiring, president and founder of Nature Fresh Farms, Leamington, Ontario, is the Ontario Produce Marketing Association’s Cory Clack-Streef Produce Person of the Year.
“I am so proud to have won this award,” Quiring said in a news release. “However, I consider that Nature Fresh Farms won this award — not just myself. There are a lot of people here working hard every day to bring quality, fresh produce to the table of North Americans.”
The award was announced during the OPMA’s virtual Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony on Nov. 19.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Quiring worked to ease tensions toward the agricultural industry and offered full transparency into the greenhouse grower’s operations during an asymptomatic outbreak. He discussed Nature Fresh’s experiences and offered insight on obstacles many farmers and greenhouse growers experienced, according to the release.
The Cory Clack-Streef award is named in honor of the former OPMA president who president of Faye Clack Communications; she died in 2007 after a battle with breast cancer. According to the OPMA, the award honors someone who has demonstrated “untiring efforts to improve the quality, distribution or consumption” of produce through innovation, cooperation and hard work.
