Carpinteria-based Florabundance, a cornerstone of the Central Coast’s floral industry, is proud to be featured in the national television series World’s Greatest!... (Season 24, Episode 398). Produced by How 2 Media and broadcast on Bloomberg TV, the full length episode celebrates Florabundance’s role in bringing the beauty of flowers from Carpinteria to floral professionals across the United States.

Four decades ago, Stemilt began growing its apples and cherries further south and east in Washington state, but there’s one fruit that planted its roots and never left. For generations, Stemilt has grown its pears in two optimal growing regions, the Wenatchee and Entiat River Valleys. Tate Mathison, Stemilt’s fifth-generation owner and vice president of sales and marketing, shared his family’s story of how they came to recognize the land’s unique qualities that make their Rushing Rivers pears World Famous.

Fresh Del Monte Produce Inc., one of the world’s leading vertically integrated producers, marketers and distributors of high-quality fresh and fresh-cut fruit and vegetables, announced a new joint venture with 

Ben B. Schwartz & Sons, a mainstay on the Michigan Produce Terminal led by fourth-generation owners Jake and Drew Billmeyer, has a distribution network that reaches most of the United States and into Canada.