July 2014 BCBusiness 123
come in
Good
It's March. It's raining. And 30-year-
old Aaron Quesnel is powering down the
Adanac bikeway on a one-speed that is, quite
obviously, older than he is. On either side
of his bike rack, he's carrying monster pan-
niers that are each big enough to hold the
tower from a late-'90s personal computer,
and he has a third such saddlebag thrown
over his back, bandolero-style. Riding up
from behind, I'm thinking about the weight,
expecting his wheels to collapse the minute
he hits the train tracks at Glen Drive. But he
bounces on smoothly. The panniers are all
empty, and even when full, they weren't that
heavy: Quesnel had been delivering micro-
greens to chi-chi restaurants in downtown
Vancouver. Now he's headed back to the
warehouse from which he's trying to build
a reputation as the next big thing in urban
agriculture.
urban farmer
Aaron Quesnel
delivers fresh
greens year-round
to restaurants
throughout
Vancouver.
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