About Winter Farm

Winter Farm's roots

Winter Farm is a Quebec company that was founded by Yves Daoust in 2018. An engineer by training, Yves spent his entire career finding technological solutions for industries undergoing profound change. It was now time for him to return to his roots: agriculture. Yves grew up on a fruit and vegetable farm in Vaudreuil, Quebec. From an early age, he became aware of the importance of food security, and of 4 major challenges to achieve it:

• Quebec’s dependence on numerous food imports
• The rapid increase in the world’s population and, by extension, its food requirements
• Increasingly unpredictable weather, resulting in the widespread use of unhealthful and polluting pesticides and chemicals
• An alarming loss of arable land

Winter Farm’s agronomists, scientists, engineers, and technology and AI experts are studying these grave issues.

Farming 4.0: an economic driver in the making

Our mission

To build, with our partners, a network of Winter Farms, thus creating an industrial hub in vertical agriculture with a worldwide influence. With their varied and plentiful agricultural output, these farms will supply nutritious, delicious and affordable food to people year round. This transformation of the agricultural cycle will allow us to increase our food self-sufficiency and protect the environment.

Our vision

Each region of the world has the right to food self-sufficiency.