It was already a huge week for Truly Green Farms last week, but their employees still took some time to give back to the community.
Just a few days after the federal government announced a $3.7 million loan to the their business and Greenfield Global, Truly Green loaded up a wagon with their products and were handing them out to residents in Wallaceburg and Chatham.
“We are just a very optimistic group of guys that work well as a team,” Hilco Tamminga, director or operations for Truly Green Farms, told the Sydenham Current, on Friday, September 15.
“Our glass is always half full. We never have a half empty day. It is a challenge to always have that too. You got to be positive, you gotta be intentional on that.”
Tamminga said the crew were cruising the streets of Wallaceburg and Chatham, handing out some of their different tomato products, gown in their greenhouse.
The initiative was done as a part of ‘Positivity Day in C-K.’
“There is a lot of people that contribute to growing tomatoes,” he said.
“There in office staff, there is admin staff, there is people who actually do the harvesting and the pruning and clipping. So we brought segments of the team, not everybody is here today, but we have some of the pickers and the harvesters here as well distributing the tomatoes in the community.”
After the big announcement from the Federal government, Tamminga said the company is riding a high.
“It has been a great week,” he said.
“We strongly feel like we are part of the community. The community has supported our business over the past several years immensely. They have been there with us all the way, from A to Z. This is a way of giving back a little bit to the community. It’s a great place to live. Chatham-Kent is awesome and we grow for the world.”
More details about the company can be found, here: www.trulygreenfarms.ca
– Photo credit: Aaron Hall
