E. D. Smith

E.D. Smith Foods, Ltd

Company Overview: One winter’s evening in 1878 a young farmer earnestly scratched his plans and dreams into his diary. The place? 120 acres tucked under the protective shadow of the Escarpment in Ontario’s Niagara Peninsula. The dream? To establish a prosperous farm for future generations -- even though he was still a bachelor! Trying to make a living, he had experimented with grapes, onions, hens, cows, sheep, grain - and that year, a little patch of strawberries. That night he wrote that after 5 years tending his little acre of strawberries, he hoped he could make as much as $150 - for planting, harvesting and taking the fruit to market. Sure enough by 1882, his hard work began to pay off. But little did E.D.SMITH know that the juicy strawberries that grew so well in this rich soil, would be the beginning of a food empire.