Month: March 2016

The Wyoming soil, iced over for eight months of the year, is not particularly hospitable to heirloom tomatoes, baby basil or lettuce plants. Instead, vegetables are trucked in from California, Mexico and other more fecund parts of the world. Yet starting this spring, Vertical Harvest, a farm in the resort town of Jackson, will begin churning out a projected 100,000 pounds of fresh produce a year. …

Uesugi Farms, headquartered in Gilroy, California, recently decided to grow and expand their solar solution with Vista Solar. Building on their previous Vista Solar installation that was completed in 2013, Uesugi Farms will be adding to their 792kW solution with an additional 594kW, bringing their total solution to 1.386mW! …

Launched this month, the venture, called Smoky Mountain Family Farms, will give Pappas more control over its tomato sourcing, enabling it to better compete in the food industry and fill the growing demand for locally grown and fresh-as-possible tomatoes. …

River Fresh Farms, a grower-shipper company providing sales, marketing, customized supply chain logistics and consolidated shipping of conventional and organic fresh fruits and vegetables, today announced the addition of Lisa Robyn to lead the sales team, work directly with buyers and support the ongoing growth of the company. …

Kevin Brown, President and CEO of Lettuce Entertain You Enterprises, Inc.® (LEYE), will be the keynote speaker at the United Fresh 2016 Breakfast General Session on Wednesday, June 22 at McCormick Place in Chicago. …