Nature Fresh Farms

Founder Peter Quiring remains Executive Chairman of a company the vendor's own team page and press both describe as family-owned; a January 2025 minority stake went to Manulife Investment Management, a Toronto-headquartered Canadian institutional investor, so both the controlling and disclosed minority owner are Canadian. Nature Fresh Farms Inc. and Nature Fresh Farms Sales Inc. share a common owner per the company's forced labour act filing. No record under this name in the Corporations Canada federal registry, so it is provincially incorporated in Ontario; the Ontario Business Registry could not be checked (blocks automation), so the mix rests on the vendor's own statements and independent press rather than a registry filing.

• Our Team - Nature Fresh Farms vendor_statement “Patrick Criteser CEO, and Peter Quiring Executive Chairman of the Board”
• Our Story - Nature Fresh Farms vendor_statement “Since 1999, our family-owned company has sought a simple yet profound goal: To cultivate a kinder, healthier future.”
• Canadian Supply Chain Forced Labour Report - Nature Fresh Farms filing “are both part of the same corporate group with a common owner”
• Manulife Investment Management Makes Minority Investment in Nature Fresh Farms press “Manulife Investment Management (Manulife IM) has taken a minority stake in Nature Fresh – a leading, family-owned North American grower of greenhouse produce”
• Search for a Federal Corporation - Corporations Canada registry “0 results were found, 0 returned.”

Nature Fresh Farms owns 160 acres of greenhouse in Leamington, Ontario and 90 acres in Delta, Ohio, and its forced labour act filing states it purchases greenhouse produce from Canada, USA and Mexico suppliers for its Canada and USA customers, without a country-of-destination breakdown. The Delta, Ohio facility was built to serve the US market rather than ship north, and Ontario growers (own plus the wider Leamington cluster within the 2,500+ acres the company operates and markets) cover most of the growing season for Canadian shelves; Mexican partner growers fill the winter gap when Ontario greenhouse output drops. No vendor-published split by shelf destination exists, so this mix is judgment, weighted toward Canada with a Mexico-heavy winter share.

• Our Story - Nature Fresh Farms vendor_statement “160 Acres – Leamington, Ontario Canada 90 Acres – Delta, Ohio U.S.A.”
• Canadian Supply Chain Forced Labour Report - Nature Fresh Farms filing “Nature Fresh purchases greenhouse grown produce from Canada, USA and Mexico suppliers and markets and distributes that produce in Canada and USA to retail and wholesale customers.”

Headquarters and the leadership team (CEO, Executive Chairman, CFO and SVPs) sit in Leamington, Ontario, and the forced labour act filing puts the whole company at over 1,000 employees without a by-site breakdown. The Delta, Ohio greenhouse is 36% of the company's owned acreage (90 of 250 acres), used here as a proxy for a meaningful but minority US staffing share alongside the Leamington-concentrated head office and farm workforce.

• Canadian Supply Chain Forced Labour Report - Nature Fresh Farms filing “Nature Fresh currently comprises of a team of over 1000 Employees”
• Our Team - Nature Fresh Farms vendor_statement “Patrick Criteser CEO, and Peter Quiring Executive Chairman of the Board”

No vendor disclosure on seed, growing-substrate or packaging sourcing was found. High-tech Dutch-style greenhouse operations of this kind typically depend on imported (Netherlands-origin) hybrid seed genetics, rockwool or coir substrate, and biological pest control, alongside domestic energy and increasingly domestic compostable packaging; this mix is an industry-pattern estimate, not a vendor-specific figure, and confidence is inferred accordingly.