Greenhouse Cucumbers – Hold the Single-Use Plastic
WITH the help of Apeel Sciences, Westmoreland Topline Farms will begin shipping greenhouse grown cucumbers without the plastic covering to retailers in the U.S. and Canada starting in June 2022. …
greenhouse cucumbers
Opportunity Mapping for Horticultural Waste Streams
Approximately 74% of Canadian fruits and vegetables are wasted before they reach consumers for a myriad of reasons. To tackle this issue and help increase the industry’s environmental sustainability, Vineland Research and Innovation Centre (Vineland) examined underutilized waste streams for the top seven Canadian produce crops including potatoes, apples, field tomatoes, greenhouse tomatoes, greenhouse cucumbers, onions and carrots and identified the range of opportunities for managing these by-products. …
