Stop & Shop Expands Flashfood to Over 30 Massachusetts Locations, All Rhode Island Locations

January 27, 2023 Stop & Shop

Stop & Shop, a neighborhood grocer for over 100 years, announced today that Flashfood, a digital marketplace that significantly reduces food waste at the retail level by connecting consumers with discounted food nearing its best by date, expanded availability of its program across 34 of its Massachusetts stores and all Rhode Island Locations.

Saint Joseph’s University 16th annual Food Industry Summit

January 27, 2023 Saint Joseph's University

The Department of Food Marketing at Saint Joseph’s University will be hosting their 16th Annual Food Industry Summit in Philadelphia on Tuesday June 6th, 2023.

AppHarvest Begins Commercial Shipments From First Harvest at New Richmond, KY, 60-Acre High-Tech Indoor Farm

January 27, 2023 AppHarvest  

AppHarvest, Inc., a sustainable food company, public benefit corporation and Certified B Corp building some of the world’s largest high-tech indoor farms to grow affordable, nutritious fruits and vegetables at scale while providing good jobs in Appalachia, today announced it has started commercial shipments from its first harvest of tomatoes at its new 60-acre high-tech indoor farm in Richmond, Ky.

CEA Alliance Hosts First Washington, DC Fly-In

Members of the Controlled Environment Agriculture Alliance met with more than 25 Congressional, U.S. Department of Agriculture, and State Departments of Agriculture leaders January 24-25 to advance the importance of CEA production in the upcoming 2023 Farm Bill and other legislation.

750 People Benefit From Fyffes Off-Season Medical Brigades Provided in Honduras Communities

January 27, 2023 Fyffes

Fyffes and its winter melon business Sol Group provide four medical clinics, five doctors, four nurses and five ambulances in the regions of Choluteca and El Paraiso, where their farms are located, to ensure that employees, their families and the local community can have access to otherwise inadequate and hard to reach healthcare. During the summer off-season however, community members struggle to access these medical services. To solve this problem, Sol has organized Community Medical Brigades to reach 15 communities surrounding its cantaloupe, watermelon, and honeydew melon farms.