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Fall is a busy time on the Northern California produce scene as consumers return to the kitchen to prepare hearty autumn dishes and distributors gear up for the holidays.

Sunkist Growers treated Montreal residents to a bright, garden-themed pop-up to escape the winter blues.

Limoneira, Santa Paula, Calif., is donating cartons of lemons to health care professionals, food banks and other agencies.

Produce Alliance LLC, Chicago, has donated fresh produce to health care workers at an area hospital.

COVID-19 has had a profound effect on the economy of Florida, nearly stopping tourism and related industry in its tracks since mid-March.

Suppliers say business is booming at Toronto’s Ontario Food Terminal, where dozens of produce companies provide customers with an extensive variety of fresh fruits, vegetables and other items.

There were fears last summer that a review conducted by the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Rural Affairs might recommend a new location for the largest wholesale produce distribution center in Canada.

NEW YORK — The Bolthouse Farms gang is back together, and they’re pumping out new product lines that embody the new company mission: Plants powering people.

To help alleviate supermarket food shortages due to the new coronavirus COVID-19, Baldor Specialty Foods will make home deliveries available to people in a 50-mile radius of its Bronx, N.Y. headquarters.

Organic produce plays a role in the Chicago market, but that role may not be as pronounced as it is the West and the East.