Braga Fresh, home of Josie’s Organics, will debut extensions to its line of conventional chopped salad kits at SEPC Southern Exposure, on March 8 in Orlando, Florida. The chopped salad kit line is extended with four flavors: Fajita Style with crunchy dried sweet corn and crispy onions; Sweet Chili with…
A Carrefour premiere: Romanian grapes for the first time on the shelf in FebruaryCarrefour Romania is bringing Romanian grapes to the store shelves in the country for the first time in February, in a storage pilot project with the producers of the “Cooperativa Grădina noastra” in Huși. Through the…
For the last 27 years, the Vegetable Orchestra in Vienna, Austria, has been playing with their food. The 11 musicians that make up this unorthodox band prepare for their concerts by hollowing out carrots and celery, peeling onion skins and cutting aubergines (eggplants), and piling up fresh produce…
Over the past 100 years, supermarkets have subtly shaped our expectations of how fruits and vegetables should appear. We’ve been conditioned to believe that red peppers are naturally uniform, cucumbers are always straight, onions are no larger than a cricket ball, and tomatoes are near-perfect spheres -…
Imagine this: Outside, it’s a freezing winter. The temperature has dropped to -25°C, -30°C, everything is covered in ice, and the bitter cold wind dominates the landscape. The ground is frozen solid, and nature has fallen into a deep slumber. But as you step inside the glass walls of a greenhouse, you…
Effective from the 1st of February 2025, Ted Vollebregt has been appointed as managing director of PECO’s substrate businesses Lensli Substrates, MEEGAA Substrates, and Free Peat by the Board of PECO. Toine Schipper (left), Ted Vollebregt (middle) and Frank Meeuwisse (right) pictured in the Lensli office…
Expert glasshouse installation specialists at CambridgeHOK have completed one of the most challenging and unique projects in its 70-year history—a four-story facility atop a new ‘urban living’ development in Swansea. The project, undertaken for Hacer Developments as part of its unique, first-of-a-kind…
UK: Supermarket sales slow amid growing concerns about higher food inflationLatest data from NielsenIQ (NIQ) shows Total Till sales growth in UK supermarkets slowed to 4.0% during the four weeks to 22nd February, down from the 5.3% figure recorded in January. Over the four weeks, meat, fish and poultry…
A popular spring event in Loveland is being cut this year due to a crop shortage. Blooms and Berries announced on social media Tuesday that it will be canceling its 2025 Strawberry Days. The company said in a Facebook post that it does not have enough healthy crops to produce strawberries for the event.…
Up until recently, the supply of field cucumbers has been exceeding the demand. “We have had very good weather so the growing conditions have been good,” says Jim Myrick of Edward L. Myrick Produce. On field cucumber supply, the end of the Honduran season is approaching and the country is finishing its…
A research team led by Prof. Alexander Vainstein from the Robert H. Smith Faculty of Agriculture, Food, and Environment at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem has developed a new variety of lettuce with significantly higher levels of essential vitamins and antioxidants. Their findings, published in Plant…
Chilli thrips plague farmers worldwide, but new research from the University of Florida has found two strawberry varieties that show less harm from these pests. The finding comes through research funded in part by the USDA National Institute of Food and Agriculture Hatch program. That’s helpful news for…