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Gotham Green, Brooklyn, N.Y., is opening a 30,000-square-foot hydroponic greenhouse in the Denver area to supply retailers in eight states.

Two universities and an association that represents blackberry and raspberry growers are studying retail strategies and how the pandemic is affecting sales.

Looking for ways to draw shopper eyeballs to blueberries for a few extra seconds? Of course you are! These are a few suggestions for blueberry fun facts to sweeten your point-of-sale materials.

Judging by early returns from on-farm markets, there is a high demand for Jersey Fresh produce this year — lagging foodservice business not withstanding.

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.