Good morning. My name is Nick Kiran.
First of all, it's an honour to be here before your standing committee on agriculture.
I'll just give you a brief history. We came to Canada in 1970 as kids and came straight to Kelowna's agricultural community. We enjoyed being on a farm, and we worked on the farm during all our school years.
By profession I'm a graphic designer. In 1990, due to illness and serious injuries, I came back to Kelowna to heal, and fell in love with agriculture all over again. I have been producing full time for the past 15 years, treating the orchard as my canvas.
Our parents purchased our first orchard in 1990 in Rutland. In 1989 we moved ourselves to east Kelowna. Over the years we purchased over 50 acres of agricultural land. We have replanted every inch to date, and still continue to operate.