Quick Facts

Number of member greenhouses: 55
Percentage of B.C.’s total greenhouse vegetables grown by our members: 96 percent
Total annual farm gate sales for BC greenhouses: More than $299 million
The estimated value of the sector to British Columbia’s economy: More than $699 million
Number of people employed: More than 3,500
The total amount of B.C.’s farmland used: 0.01 percent
Amount of herbicides used in greenhouses: None
Number of months we produce vegetables: 10 (some are available year-round using lights)
Size of fields needed to produce the same amount of vegetables grown in our greenhouses: 11,550 acres, more than eleven times the size of Vancouver’s Stanley Park
Types of vegetables grown: many varieties of tomatoes including beefsteak, tomato on the vine and cocktail, sweet bell peppers, hot peppers, mini peppers, long English cucumbers, mini cucumbers, eggplants, butter lettuce and strawberrries

Distribution of vegetables in production:
- Tomatoes: 28%
- Long English cucumbers: 12%
- Bell peppers: 56%
- Other: 4%
Average number of plants per acre:
- Tomatoes: 10,000
- Cucumbers: 6,000
- Peppers: 14,000
Average amount of vegetables produced using less space than your bathtub* takes up:
- Tomatoes: 150 pounds
- Cucumbers: 160 cucumbers
- Peppers: 55 pounds
Amount of tomatoes produced by one of our greenhouses when setting the world record in 2002: 165 pounds per square meter.