Greener Fields Together releases national, local participants

10/19/2012 11:39:27 AM
Kayla Banzet

Greener Fields Together, the foodservice industry’s first comprehensive, national farm-to-fork sustainability program, has increased membership with national and local companies.

The initiative, launched by Pro*Act on Oct. 2, holds growers and distributors to specific standards, include measuring energy use and water management.

Independent, third-party audits will be used to verify members’ sustainability programs, according to a news release.

National grower participants are:

• Taylor Farms, Salinas, Calif.;

• Grimmway Farms, Bakersfield, Calif.;

• Sunkist Growers, Sherman Oaks, Calif.;

• NewStar, Salinas,;

• Mann Packing, Salinas; and

• Mission Produce, Oxnard, Calif.

Local distributors are:

• Antonucci’s Wholesale Produce & Seafood, Gloversville, N.Y.;

• Armstrong Produce, Honolulu;

• Bamford Produce, Mississauga, Ontario;

• Bix Produce, St. Paul, Minn.;

• Capitol City Produce, Baton Rouge, La.;

• Carlo Masi and Sons, Utica, N.Y.;

• Chapman Produce, Tallahassee, Fla.;

• Charlie’s Produce, Seattle;

• City Produce, Fort Walton Beach, Fla.;

• Costa Fruit & Produce, Boston;

• Family Tree, Anaheim, Calif.;

• Foster-Caviness, Greensboro, N.C.

• Freedom Fresh, Miami;

• General Produce, Sacramento, Calif.;

• Get Fresh Sales, Las Vegas;

• Go Fresh, Tulsa, Okla.;

• Grasmick, Boise, Idaho;

• Gulf Coast, Biloxi, Miss.;

• Hardie’s Fruit & Vegetable Co., Dallas/Austin, Texas/Houston

• Hearn Kirkwood, Hanover, Md.;

• Hector Larivée, Inc., Montréal, Québec;

• J. Kings Food Service Professionals, Holtsville, N.Y.;

• Limehouse Produce, North Charleston, S.C.;

• Loffredo Fresh Produce, Des Moines, Iowa;

• McCartney Produce, Paris, Tenn.;

• Metropolitan Foods, Little Rock, Ark.;

• Muir Copper Canyon Farms, Salt Lake City;

• Ole Tyme Produce, St. Louis;

• Pacific Coast Fruit, Portland, Ore.;

• Paragon Foods, Pittsburgh;

• Piazza Produce, Indianapolis;

• Pocono Produce, Stroudsburg, Pa.;

• Potato Specialty, Lubbock, Texas;

• ProduceOne, Dayton, Ohio;

• Produce Source Partners, Ashland, Va.;

• Royal Food Service, Atlanta;

• Seashore Fruit & Produce, Atlantic City, N.J.;

• Segovia’s Distributing Inc., El Paso, Texas;

• Simon & Leeman, Detroit;

• Stern Produce, Phoenix;

• Sunrise Fresh Produce, Jacksonville, Fla.;

• T&T Produce, Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga.;

• Tarantino Foods, Buffalo, N.Y.;

• Testa Produce, Chicago;

• Van Eerden Company, Grand Rapids, Mich.;

• Vinyard Fruit & Vegetable, Oklahoma City;

• Weyand Food Distributors, Tampa, Fla.; and

• Yancey’s Foodservice, Loveland, Colo.

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