Month: July 2016

NYC Restaurant Mompou has been using AeroFarms greens in its salads, including one with fresh mozzarella, cherry tomatoes and avocado on a bed of AeroFarms baby arugula, since February. Several other Ironbound restaurants are also AeroFarms converts, filling salad bowls with baby kale, spinach and lettuces grown without soil, and without ever seeing sunlight, by a team of highly ambitious farmers. Another AeroFarms location, set to open in Newark later this year, will have the capacity to produce 2 million pounds of baby greens per year. …

Wish Farms, grower-shipper and year round supplier of strawberries and blueberries, announces its commitment to donate $100,000 to the Center for Produce Safety (CPS). The CPS research campaign focuses on prevention of foodborne illnesses and disease outbreaks in the produce industry. The goal is to narrow and potentially close the knowledge gap in order to prevent future devastating events. …

Bella Verdi has expanded operations by opening a new 20,000 square foot greenhouse facility located near Austin, Texas. The new facility will increase production of the company’s living and specialty lettuces as well as other leafy greens. …

With consumer attention pulled in myriad directions, the California Avocado Commission (CAC) is extending its communications via third-party advocates. A team including artisan chefs, popular bloggers and registered dietitian ambassadors incorporate California avocados into their menus, recipes, blogs and public relations activities leading up to and during the season. According to CAC Vice President Marketing Jan DeLyser, by April CAC’s influencer program reached more than 12 million consumers this season. …

The Allen Lund Company, Atlanta Flatbed office donated the cost of the transportation for a truck load of school supplies for Mission Haiti. …