Emily Peat, Founder, EP Organics and Civil
Engineering student: I started my home delivery
service of organic produce and other grocery
items in 2012, as an enterprise co-op.
Being an engineer, I find approaching everything
like a problem or a project helps in the business.
You are looking for what is or what are the
constraints or what's success look like here.
Once I discovered entrepreneurship at Waterloo,
I had so much encouragement.
I had mentors assigned and there were so many
workshops I could attend.
I actually remember when I saw the E co-op
posting, I felt "oh I couldn't do that" but
when I started to think about it more, I got
more excited about it and then now, I've got
this store front.
We're delivering to a couple hundred people
a week.
There are people who are looking for sustainable,
healthy options and many of the farms around
here are really small, so big distributors
don't work with them.
We're connecting those people with the farms.
She picks up all kinds of different things;
what we have in season, from fruit to vegetables
to herbs to flowers.
Elijah Richardson, farmer, Sunnivue Organic
Farm: This is really innovative and so needed.
Keri Jo Puddicombe, customer, EP Organics:
Every week the groceries come and it's so
awesome.
It's just nice knowing where your food's coming
from and you can tell she loves what she's
doing.
It's been a steep learning curve.
The program's tough but it's so much fun and
it was totally worth it!
