Fruit World, a family-owned, flavor-focused grower-shipper of organic and conventional fruit, is now shipping its organic cherries and will begin packing and shipping organic apricots the first week of May. "What a difference one year makes," said Bianca Kaprielian, Fruit World co-founder and CEO. "2020 was a bumpy stone fruit season in California, but this year we had enough chill hours and favorable weather, and the trees are full of great looking fruit."

After working with a proprietary plant breeder and trialing many different seed varieties, Lakeside Organic Gardens has found a “Sweet Baby Broccoli” (also known as broccolette and broccolini) that it believes is superior to others and has good supplies of it for the organic buyer.

The Organic Produce Network and Western Growers have formed a strategic partnership reflecting the importance of organic production and announced that WG will be the presenting sponsor of the Organic Grower Summit 2021.

Organic Grower Summit 2021 presented by Western Growers and OPN will be held at the Hyatt Regency Monterey Resort in Monterey, CA, on Dec. 1-2.  Exhibitor registration will open in May with general registration slated to open in June.

Ocean Mist Farms, a leading grower and marketer of organics in the U.S., offer artichokes, iceberg, celery, broccoli, cauliflower, and romaine hearts in its organic product line. The company has been cultivating organic artichokes since 2000, and in 2015, it added a full line of organic vegetables.

If ever there was a kid destined to be a farmer, it is Dick Peixoto, owner and founder of Watsonville, CA-based Lakeside Organic Gardens.

Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A. Inc., one of North America’s leading marketers and distributors of high-quality fresh and fresh-cut fruit and vegetables, announced the expansion of its organic fresh-cut fruit production in North America, specifically in the United States and Canada. This expansion will allow Fresh Del Monte to continue growing its fresh-cut fruit and organic fresh-cut fruit businesses nationally, while diversifying its variety of produce SKUs.