MERCHANDISING TIPS: • Your fruit counters should be reset with fresh crop stone fruit, soft fruit, grapes, and melons by Thursday May 26st. Don’t play catch up throughout the holiday weekend. • Expand your berry sections. Full variety is available on Organic and Conventional berries, including some big packs. • Your vegetable counters also need […]
We’re happy to announce that a total of $34,336.50 was raised for Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) through our Earth Week Promotion! A big thank you to Lady Moon Farms, Mother Earth Mushrooms, and everyone else who helped promote this campaign. Although Earth Day is April 22nd, we truly believe that we need to make sustainable […]
Drive sales, create margin, delight customers! The quality, shelf-life, freshness, flavors & variety of vegetables and tomatoes available from greenhouses continues to improve. Here at Four Seasons Produce, we’re excited to offer these premium products from Mucci Farms & Village Farms for the 2016 season: NOTE: “Love Handles” from Village Farms will be available starting […]
At Four Seasons, although Earth Day is April 22nd, we truly believe that making sustainable choices is important every day of the year, because as farmer Wendell Berry once said, “The Earth is what we all have in common.” As a part of Earth Week, Four Seasons Produce will once again celebrate by showing our […]
The top 40 list below features the items that sold quickest in terms of case velocity to independent retailers, natural food stores, food coops, and smaller regional chain stores in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast during the spring months of 2015. How does your organic produce display and item offerings match up with the list below? […]
What is Leg Up Farm? Leg Up Farm is a therapy center in York County, PA for children with special needs. They serve infants, children, adolescents and young adults up to the age of 21. Able Services offers day program services to adults with special needs. Both Leg Up Farm and Able Services are the vision […]
March produce picks for the month: CALIFORNIA GOLD NUGGET MANDARINS What’s a Gold Nugget? The skins are deep orange in color and appear pebbled and bumpy – like a nugget of gold. Inside of this virtually seedless mandarin the orange-gold flesh is sweet and juicy. They’re acidic enough to be bright, yet richly sweet, making […]
With Valentine’s Day on a Sunday you should anticipate extra foot traffic that day. There will be extra related business on Saturday but this year Sunday will be the day. ALERT: Strawberries will be in lighter supply, so think about other items to promote too. SELLING IDEAS: • Cut Flower sales will spike through the […]