Bay Baby Produce offers new organic squash display 

Michele Youngquist, president and co-founder of Bay Baby Produce, Mount Vernon, Wash., with Lindsey Dalesky, sales representative and Tyann Schlimmer, sales representative were first-time exhibitors at Viva Fresh.
Michele Youngquist, president and co-founder of Bay Baby Produce, Mount Vernon, Wash., with Lindsey Dalesky, sales representative and Tyann Schlimmer, sales representative were first-time exhibitors at Viva Fresh.
(Tom Karst)

GRAPEVINE, Texas – A new organic squash pallet display was highlighted by Mount Vernon, Wash.-based Bay Baby Produce at the Texas International Produce Association’s 2022 Viva Fresh Expo.

Michele Youngquist, president and co-founder of the company said the half-pallet displays are versatile options for retailers.

“Within that pallet display, you can put five different varieties of organic winter squash; for example, you could do butternut, acorn, and spaghetti, or, if you want all butternut, you do all butternut,” she said. “You can preset all your stores with the same varieties and your best-selling items, so that's really nice.”

Youngquist said 56 half-pallet displays fit on a truck. “It cubes out nicely and the freight isn’t as bad as what you think.”

For Bay Baby Produce, the squash season typically starts about mid-September and sells until about Dec. 15, she said. 

Bay Baby Produce was a first-time exhibitor at the Viva Fresh show in 2022, and Youngquist said the show was “fantastic.”
 

 

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