Tag: Produce

  • Sacramento’s farm-to-food bank serves 100% locally grown produce

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    A number of food banks in California are working to deliver more fresh produce to their clients.  The Sacramento Food Bank is a leader among them.  They used to be “one of those standard food distribution centers where bags of processed foods, carbohydrate-laden government commodities and day-old breads and sweets were bagged and handed to…

  • Sno Pac Foods – Organic since 1943

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    CALEDONIA, Minn. — The Gengler family and its Sno Pac Foods Inc., founded in 1943, are pioneers in frozen organic food. In fact, the Caledonia business says it was the world’s first grower/processor of frozen organic vegetables. Today, it also sells frozen fruit and frozen juice concentrate. This summer, the 70-year-old company is expanding into…

  • Community Supported Agriculture

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    If you haven’t done so already, you might want to consider joining a CSA if you want to have fresh produce from a local farm this spring and summer. Here are the basics: a farmer offers a certain number of “shares” to the public. Typically the share consists of a box of vegetables, but other…