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Boston Area Gleaners Inc., Farm to Table Buy Local Corporation, Unique Ingredients LLC, Victory Produce LLC and West Group Holding Company LLC are new companies to the Market. PFG Milton’s and others have updates.

Bowery Farming has launched crispy leaf lettuce.

Rainier Fruit Co. is on track to earn Bee Better certification for Washington blueberries in July 2020.

The common phrase lately has to be “I’m looking forward to getting back to normal.”

E B Food Service Inc., Happy Produce LLC, SMH2 Manufacturing LLC, T&B Rustic Waters LLC, and Urban Tilth are new companies to the Market. Diamondback Acres Inc., Performance Food Group Company and others have updates.

In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, I sometimes struggle to find some ray of hope, some lesson that we may have overlooked that we might carry with us when it’s all over.

My quarantined focus, like that of so many folks now, is the grocers in my immediate area.

“You’re a produce person? I would buy more fresh produce if I only knew what was in season — you know, what’s really good right now.”

Potatoes USA is seeking nominations for 60 open board member seats for the 2020-24 term.

Peppers are a mainstay of retail fresh produce departments, and for good reason. Retailers use fresh peppers as a destination category to attract attention and to stand out to their shoppers.