Doug Hennigar is selling the farm, but says it’s not because business is bad.

Hennigar’s Farm Market is a landmark in Greenwich and has been in the family for three generations and almost 100 years.

"When you sell a business. I guess, and this is what sort of scares me about this interview, you know people think you’re going bankrupt and all these other crazy things," says Hennigar.

He adds business is not bad, he’s just ready to retire.

"We’re not selling because, you know, our creditors are at the door and all these other things that you tend to think about a going out of business sale," he said.

Hennigar and his wife run the 135 acre farm and farm market. They grow vegetables and fruits, including 60 varieties of apples.

A 2.5 km trail runs through the grounds. Amenities include a barn, a warehouse, a cider building, four greenhouses and small restaurant.

Important to reconnect

Hennigar says they’ve been trying to educate people about agriculture while they’ve been in business and they appreciate the generations that have come through their doors.

"You just can’t ignore the fact that we’ve brought a lot of people from diapers into adulthood, into their own kids coming here and you take that with a great deal of responsibility to make sure that...the new people have the same thing in mind and we expect to be around for years of training," he said.

It’s been important to him to reconnect people back to the farm because society is so far removed from it now, he says.

We really don’t take it for granted, we just take it with a great deal of...responsibility that we give people some of the really interesting experiences with agriculture on a first hand basis."

Hennigar says he’d like to see a family operation buy the farm with two or three generations to work on it.

"It’s a great place to bring up a family and to have a business, we’ve had a great career here, but like I say, you have to move on at some point."