Some businesses are born of sheer entrepreneurial grit, determination and competitive drive. Others are driven by innovation, sometimes of the accidental kind.
In the case of the Young Urban Farmers, sowing the seeds of success has involved all of those elements – not to mention a healthy collection of actual vegetable seeds as founder Christopher Wong and his two partners seek to change the way urbanites eat, one backyard garden at a time.
The Toronto-based start-up was founded last year with a mission to not only turn a healthy profit, but to also encourage sustainable practices in households across the city.
“The three of us all had an entrepreneurial passion, we knew we wanted to run our own business and we were brainstorming different ideas,†Mr. Wong, 24, recalls. More.