Phil Quinn grew up on the farm, working from a young age doing things like planting corn and cultivating strawberries. He attend MacDonald college in the Farm Management Technology program and then took a break from farming to work in construction and snow removal for several years before returning to get established on the farm. Phil now manages all of the field production with an assistant manager and 10 migrant workers. He also coordinates all u-pick activities and logistics of customer flow.
Quinn Farm was started in 1982 by Phil’s parents. They purchased land that had not been farmed in 30 years and cleared the land with the intention of creating an agritourism farm. They started with strawberries and planted apple trees and Christmas trees. Today the farm grows fruits and vegetables on 250 acres with everything produced being sold on site through u-pick, in the farm shop as well as being processed into value added goods such as preserves, frozen meals and baked goods. They grow asparagus, strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, sweet corn, apples, pumpkins and Christmas trees as well as a range of garden veggies. The farm receives around 100,000 guests annually for u-pick and has a large farm shop that is mostly grocery items which sees several hundred regular shoppers weekly. The farm is open from March to December and offers a few educational days throughout the year: sheep shearing, maple taffy experience and honey harvest. The farm has greatly reduced the number of field trips it does in the past few years to focus on expanding the farm shop.