Reekie Road - Krazy Cherry Fruit Packers

In February, led by Mohini Singh and Maxime DeHart, Kelowna council said no to a small cake business. Maxine DeHart coined the term “commercial creep” in describing the small cake enterprise's impact on agricultural land. The chirping old women were all for a non-adhering residential use permit to allow 100 temporary farm workers on a 16.6 hectare property at 3520 Reekie Road however. Singh spoke out loudly for the need for more fruit pickers, saying too many cherries were left on the trees, unpicked. Coun. Wooldridge was falling over himself, saying the agriculture industry needs workers. Owners of Krazy Cherry Fruit Packers are Gary and Nimmi Bahniwal. They made headlines in 2020 when the close quarters in their prison resulted in a COVID-19 epicenter cluster. Migrant workers who were in isolation after contracting COVID-19 spoke of poor treatment and no food. "My boss was not kind," he said. "He seemed annoyed about bringing me food. And he kept yelling at me to clean the trailer, as if I didn't know that I had to do so." Krazy Cherry operations manager Harman Singh Bahniwal (harman@krazycherry.com) said it was all in their heads. He was an agent with Oakwyn Realty Okanagan.

On August 23, 2025 it was a $12,207 WorkSafe B.C fine. Krazy Cherry failed in its fight against a $7,000 fine issued by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency in 2019. Pests were discovered in their cherries and they sold them anyway.

Samples of crushed cherries are submerged in a bucket of brown sugar and water solution. They yielded three pests: two drosophila larvae and one rhagoletis pupa. As a result, that particular lot of cherries was not issued a certificate to be sent for trade. That didn't slow the Bahniwals down and the worm filled cherries went to Dubai.