Uncover the Truth About Don and Linda Gibbs
Explore their companies operating in Ontario and Florida that do nothing except own bare land.
Discover the reality of their business operations.
Understand their claims versus actual activities.
Here are some of the companies that Don and Linda control
Waterside Stables Inc dba Best Berry Farms
Emerald Coast Farms Inc
Quantum Weed Limited
Don or Linda are the presidents and only directors of these companies
This is a photo that appears on the bestberryfarms.com website.
It certainly implies a working farm that has grown crops of berries in the past. It isn't!
The photo was downloaded from the dreamstime.com website of stock photos. Here is the actual caption:
Families picking fresh strawberries in strawberry farm. Rows of fresh strawberries, red, ripe and very appetising and ready to be picked by families. Photo taken at a strawberry farm in Queensland, Australia where you can pick your own fruit.
Let's start with Best Berry Farms located at 8409 North River Line Road in Wallaceburg, Ontario
As you can see with your own eyes
No farming, no machinery, no processing plant. Nothing.
This is what the property actually looks like!
Hey, UPickers this is a great way to visit the farm and to enjoy a day with us!
We offer the following suggestions to make your day more enjoyable:
Summer Season Hours: 8:30am-6:30pm.
Free Parking, Free push buggies to hold your trays or bags.
Bring your own bug spray if needed
Hats or Knee pads for the strawberries, light garden gloves for raspberries.
Bottles of Water & snacks if you need.
Porta-Johns for your convenience
We weigh your berries that you pick.
Bring your own bags or boxes so you can take your berries home.
We will be posting the cost of picking just before the season before you arrive.
Smile we love meeting the folks that love berries like we do!
This is the first big lie. There is nothing there.
So, could it be that this is just meant to attract innocent investors?
But wait a minute. This is what Don and Linda say on the bestberry.com website:
But like all lies, they need to make it appear even better.
This is what they say next:
We are excited to announce our new crops of strawberries and raspberries added to our farm fields which allows the additional opportunity of making and selling boutique jams.
We have expanded our farm building which allows us to introduce aeroponics with a controlled precise fertigation method in our indoor grow rooms. This expansion, will allow us to have a controlled production on a year round basis for Strawberries.
Our field crop and indoor production berries will be processed in our state of the art Jam Room. This assures fresh quality control for our consumers. We will be able to insure our brand name and products with this type of quality control.
All this is written as if it is all in place and operational.
There is no expanded farm building, no jam room, no aeroponics - NOTHING!
So why do it?
Could it be that this is all a front to raise investment money from innocent people?
Let's let Don and Linda answer that question.
Here is the text from the website:
Our Proposal
We are offering Convertible notes for term of 1 year at 10% interest.
At the end of the year you can convert the note and its interest into common shares.
Each common share will be valued at $1.50 cdn per share.
Common shares will earn yearly guaranteed dividends of 10%.
Please be advised that the offer will expire on or about 30th of September 2024.
Our thanks to your interest and for more information please email Don.
I guess this is what it was all about in the first place.
But there is much more.
Now let's have a look at farm No. 2 located at 370 Union Avenue, Crescent City, Florida
As you can plainly see, this is raw land - no crops, no farm buildings - NOTHING.
There seems to be a pattern here!
This is Emerald Coast Farms
And this is how Don describes it on his website, www.emeraldcoastfarm.com
Crescent City Florida is a small farming Community situated on Crescent Lake approximately 50 miles north of Orlando. Emerald Coast Farms Inc. Est. 1994, purchased a 40-acre farm in October 2022 and has begun development of a 5-acre Aeroponic Greenhouse with an attached retail & processing facility and store. Our planned public opening is the Spring of 2024.
Our proprietary methods of organic Aeroponic Growing, Harvesting, Drying and CO2 extraction will produce CBG, CBD, & CBN products with NO molds or mildew or pesticides. Our CBD, CBN, and CBG productsare 100% Pure.
Yet again, as the photo clearly shows, there is nothing there. No aeroponic greenhouse, no buildings - NOTHING.
How did Don acquire this land in Florida?
In July of 2023, Don and Linda made an offer to purchase 40 acres of raw land on Union Avenue from Sam Church. Mr. Church lived in North Carolina and was in very poor health. He accepted the Gibbs' offer to purchase the land for $389,000, but the Gibbs had no money, so he agreed to accept monthly payments over a six year period. Mr. Church even paid the closing costs.
Mr. Church died three months later and his wife has never received a single payment. The Gibbs have clear title to the land. Mrs. Church has recently engaged legal counsel to try to get the land back.
In March of 2024, the Gibbs listed the property for sale with Century 21 Triton Real Estate in Crescent City for $459,960. Check this out at: https://www.century21.com/property/370-union-ave-crescent-city-fl-32112-C2183757606
Nice.
Quantum Weed Limited
Perhaps this is what all the hype is about.
Quantum Weed (www.quantumweed.ca) was incorporated as a Canadian company on September 11, 2019. Its goal was to raise money and grow cannabis. This is discussed in detail on the various websites.
Under the heading Who Are We, we find the following:
100% Pure Products
Donald and Linda Gibbs are lifelong believers in Naturopathic Healthcare.
Our proprietary methods of organic Aeroponic Growing, Harvesting, Drying and CO2 extraction will produce CBG, CBD, and CBN products with NO molds or mildew or pesticides.
Our CBG, CBD, and CBN products are 100% Pure.
The is no cannabis, no store, no greenhouse. There is nothing!
I was misled by their claims; they do not deliver any real services or products.
The word fraud does come to mind.
John Doe
★★★★★
Fraud
In the Criminal Code of Canada, fraud is defined as deliberately depriving someone of their belongings (property, money, services, etc.) through deceit or misrepresentation of their true intention.
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