About us

Harting Holland is a flexible, service-oriented tomato nursery. As a compact organization, the nursery provides a total package of products, services and excellent service, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day.

Team

Tomato is a labour-intensive crop, which is why we employ over 200 temporary workers during the peak season. Besides harvesting and crop care, the permanent core organization consists of many different positions.
Harting Holland’s permanent team consists of:

Cultivation managers
Location managers
Packaging and logistics managers
Personnel coordinator
Technical department
Administrative staff
Finance manager
Sales managers
Energy manager

History

For generations, the Harting family has been growing various products in glasshouses. Starting with cultivation under flat glass, today in very modern greenhouses.

1927

Grower family

John Harting comes from a family of growers with a distinct love of horticulture. A variety of vegetable crops have been grown since 1927.

1985

John Harting starts for himself

John Harting buys his first greenhouse of 1.3 hectares located in Honselersdijk.

1991

The start in Maasland

The greenhouse in Honselersdijk is sold and a larger 2.8 hectare site is bought in Maasland. Crop labour is mainly done by a large group of students. Some of these students are now managers at Harting Holland.

1998

Own sales

John Harting begins selling and packing his own and fellow growers tomatoes for the US market.

1999

Scaling up

John decides that scaling up is necessary to remain successful as a business. That year, a new horticultural complex on Zijtwende in De Lier was purchased. At the time of purchase, there were 16 hectares of greenhouses and associated buildings on a 35-hectare plot.

2000

Even more build

In 2000, 8 hectares of greenhouses and a modern packaging hall were build.

2003

Total 30 hectares

In 2003, the plot was filled with almost another 6 hectares of greenhouses. Today, the family-owned company has four contiguous greenhouses with a total of 30 hectares of cherry and vine tomatoes.

2014

Drilling for geothermal energy

The focus is put on future-proofing the nursery. For example, we started drilling for a geothermal well together with our neighbour grower to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels.

2017 - heden

A real family business

The 4th generation enters the business. On to the future!