I’m a produce writer, but not a very good poet. In school I didn’t grade well in the world of couplets, stanzas, prose and ballads. Still, I’m inspired by the art. More about this later.

Lafayette, N.J.-based Element Farms completed construction and onboarding at its first facility and has revealed expansion plans: a 2.5-acre greenhouse designed specifically for growing baby spinach year-round.

How the food dollar ultimately splits out between foodservice and retail remains to be seen, but right now both channels are experiencing growth.

Morehead, Ky.-based AppHarvest Inc. started building two new high-tech indoor farms: A berry farm in Somerset, Ky., and a leafy greens farm Morehead, Ky.

All of the products from Chesterfield Twp., Mich.-based Lakeland Fresh Farms, a local producer of hydroponically grown greens, are now verified as non-GMO through The Non-GMO Project.

Marketers moved more than 3 million pounds of organic garlic, and sales topped more than $24 million in 2019, according to IRI.