Our Growers
Alpine Meats
What started out as a small family business has steadily grown over the years and still maintaining the foundation on which it was built: highest quality and superior customer service. Alpine products do not contain artificial flavors; only the finest fresh meats and premium spices are used. Alpine Meats' traditional hickory hardwood burning smokehouses slowly bring out the true smoked flavor of their products which they are happy to share with FromTheFarm.com.
Angel Acres Farms
Angel Acres Farm is the premier Berkshire Pork farms in all of Wisconsin. Owners Jeff and Eileen McCutchen along with the help of all six children Michael, Melissa, Thomas, Anne Marie, Bridget and Sean Paul have worked hard to build their farm. All of the animals at Angel Acres are raised using sustainable, humane, and compassionate methods. Our animals have plenty of space to be themselves, and they only receive antibiotics if they are sick. We care about our animals and help them live good lives. We call our animals by name, feed them well, and give them lots of room to run around.
AR Express
AR Express is a small family –owned business that was founded in 2007 with a vision to promote health and vitality through the use of organic foods. Dealing directly with the grower-supplier, AR Express is able to avoid the use of intermediaries that are usually involved in larger companies. As a result, their products have been minimally handled and individually packaged with care. AR Express believes in the healing and sustaining powers of foods and their nutritional benefits to our health.
Atlantic Blueberry
In 1935, shortly after the Great Depression, five brothers decided to try growing blueberries for a living. Sons of Italian immigrants, Duke, Bill, Ernie, Al and Anthony Galletta started Atlantic Blueberry with five acres of land in the Southern New Jersey Pinelands. Over the years, they built a successful cultivated blueberry farming operation that today encompasses over 1,300 acres.
Babé Farms
Babe’ Farms of Santa Maria, California was one of the very first growers of baby leaf lettuces in the United States. Now, Babe’ Farms stands out as a premier grower, packer, shipper of more than 100 baby and specialty vegetables. Among its year-round harvest are baby lettuces, specialty greens, colorful root veggies and baby cauliflower. Babe’ Farms continues to be a family owned and operated business, the Lundberg Family proudly carries on the tradition and quality that the Babe’ Farms logo represents.
Barrett Orchards
Washington State is world-renowned for crispy, crunchy apples and Barrett Orchards is a valued contributor to this apple-grower success story. A fourth-generation family farm in eastern Washington’s Yakima Valley, owners Mark and Cheryl Barrett thrill customers with tree-ripened apples that anyone can just show up to get—by picking their own choice fruit. Since the 1990s, Barrett Orchards have diversified to include cherries, apricots, peaches, nectarines and pears.
Bravo Farms
Established in 1979, Bravo Farms is nestled near the foothills of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the fertile San Joaquin Valley of California. Here we create unique, naturally aged cheeses. Working with nature, we use fresh milk from our family’s farm with all natural ingredients. No hormones or preservatives are used in our fine artisan cheeses We only make all natural cheese that we know you will love.
Bread Fair
Tucked away in the lush San Joaquin Valley in Rural Southern California lies a small and enchanting town by the name of Exeter. Awash with murals and bountiful culture this tiny hamlet is the birthplace of “The Bread Fair” a small baking company with a truly unique outlook. Deeming themselves “Bread Designers”, the baker/owner (Jennifer Harvey) and her crew are doing what? “Playing in the kitchen!” The Bread Fair produces 18 different varieties of bread with delicious names like “Apple Morning” “Tuscan Sunrise” and “Black Forest” which range in flavors from a chocolate bread to an Italian bread loaded with Sundried Tomatoes, Basil, Oregano, Garlic and Rosemary. Her varieties of sweet breads include an Almond Rum bread (The Almond Tree), an Orange bread (Orangey Goodness), a Lemon Bread (Sunshine), Chocolate bread (Black Forest), Apple Cinnamon Walnut bread (Apple Morning) and Raisin Cinnamon Walnut (Raisin a Ruckus). Currently, five local restaurants use her breads for various menu items. A unique opportunity also is available; Jennifer offers to design an exclusive bread for any restaurant or business that will express their signature style and tastes.
Certified Piedmontese Beef
Montana Ranch Brand is proud to offer the world’s premier natural beef - Certified Piedmontese Beef. The Piedmontese breed of cattle originated in the foothills of Italy. Today, we have hardworking family ranchers who are raising this delicious, wholesome beef here in the United States. Montana Ranch Brand is committed to maintaining the integrity, quality and superior characteristics of this breed by defining and enforcing strict ranching standards from birth to harvest.
Cherie Reed
Choffy- It almost brings to mind some far away, mysterious land with exotic flowers and deep, dark jungles; occupied only by the things closest to the origins of life. Ideas were racing through my brain as I examined the steaming cup of deliciousness in front of me. What IS it? Why does it taste so marvelous? The answer is amazing and simple. Choffy is merely chocolate- in the best possible way you can have it. It is brewed chocolate, made from the finest organic cacão beans, roasted and ground for a rich, full flavored drink.
Clearwater Country Foods
Clearwater Country Foods is an earth-friendly company dedicated to producing safe, healthy food using environmentally friendly methods. Douglas Moser, president of Clearwater Country Foods, is the fourth generation farmer in Palouse Valley, Idaho. Douglas, his wife, Judy, and their three children began producing fresh garbanzo beans in 1980. New technology and enhanced harvesting equipment introduced by Clearwater Country Foods now makes this delicious legume available fresh year round.
Culinary Classics
Dave Pagel Produce
Born and raised on a fruit farm near Berrien Springs, Michigan, Dave Pagel has farming in his blood. Both his father’s and mother’s families were farmers as far back as they can trace the lineages. The family farm is located on the eastern shore of Lake Michigan, which provides a moderated micro-climate ideal for growing a wide variety of produce. Pagel founded Dave Pagle Produce in 1978 to market crops grown by his family and neighboring farms. In addition to his produce marketing activities, Dave takes great pride in growing and harvesting apples, his favorite crop.
Davis Farms
My wife Jane and I planted pomegranate trees three years ago on our rich soil of the San Joaquin Valley in California. Our property is located in the middle of grape country around the Woodbrige area. Our wonderful variety of pomegranates are the number one variety worldwide for their rich flavor and deep red color. Since we do not sell to wholesalers our fruit hangs on the tree until it is ready for harvest and then some, adding sugar and flavor each day longer it hangs. The pomegranates taste great this year!!
Deer Creek Heights Ranch
Lisle Babcock knows his citrus! We love finding innovative growers like Babcock, who are committed to growing new and unusual varieties full of flavor and harvested at their peak of ripeness. Babcock grew up in a farming family. Citrus was always a favorite -- the family grew five acres of oranges when he was young. Lisle is also an excellent pomegranate farmer. The seeds of his fresh pomegranates are soft enough to be eaten along with the pulp. The fruit is grown by Babcock and a group of family farmers whose commitment to superior taste, hard-to-find varieties and support of organic growing methods results in unsurpassed flavor and quality.
Dos Gringos
Dos Gringos is an innovative contract grower, hand-made bouquet assembler and shipper of unique fresh-cut flowers, foliage, and botanicals. Superior service, consistent quality and constant communication are the core of the Dos Gringos business. Striving each day to make the flower-buying experience productive and profitable for every customer, Dos Gringos aims to be different by design.
Family Farm Fresh
CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) is undeniably a win-win direct from farmer to consumer concept. First started in Europe and Japan because of an increasing disconnect between smaller producers and consumers, this concept is now blossoming all over North America. For example, Family Farm Fresh (FFF) CSA in California’s San Joaquin South Valley serves 300 families within a 40-mile radius. Year round, FFF guarantees their CSA subscribers at least: 29 winter crops, 20 in spring, 25 in summer and 22 come fall. CSAs are typically limited to local-area deliveries only. Now, FromTheFarm.com is taking CSA to a whole new exciting level—by delivering FFF CSA goodies locally grown in central California to all of North America. How exciting to get prime California produce at your door, whenever you fancy them, year round, with that backyard flavor!
Family Tree Farms
Family Tree Farms is owned by David Jackson and his family, who have built a company that is firmly founded on the pursuit of flavor and a focus on their customers. To stay ahead of the rest and to stay true to their mission, they travel the world searching for breeders who are as obsessed with flavor as they are. When they find deliciously unique fruits, Family Tree Farms negotiate for the exclusive U.S. growing rights for those varieties. Family Tree Farms has established an R&D center in central California where they grow, test and evaluate fruit from all over the world as well as from the wonderful breeders right in their own backyard.
Flax USA
The Stober family farm has been in existence for over 100 years near Goodrich, North Dakota, where flax seed has been grown for many generations. The John and Stephanie Stober family represent the 5th generation to grow up on the family farm.
Four Corners Farms
Four Corners Farms' strict cultivation standards require the best hybrid seeds and irrigation with low-sulfur water to produce quality Vidalia onions with a consistent extra-mild taste. Growing truly outstanding Vidalia onions is the first step in carefully controlled handling, packaging and distribution system that ensures customer satisfaction and repeat sales.
Fresh Gardens
Fresh Gardens is a family owned and operated farm by the Petrucci Family - in the historic Redland growing area in Dade County, Florida. They have over 1000 tropical trees on their farm.
Robert Petrucci, "Farmer Bob" as he prefers to be called, says it is his job to introduce you to and get you excited about exotic tropical fruits. Fresh Gardens specializes in golden passion fruit, longans, lychees, guava, carambola, and dragon fruit - though they have other unique tropical fruit varieties in addition to these.
FromTheFarm
FromTheFarm.com is America's Online Farmers Market. Our goal is to support the American Farmer by helping them make all their products available to everyone in the nation. All of our products come shipped directly from the farmer who grows and packs them.
Glacier Fresh
So if you buy cherries from Glacier Farms, how fresh is fresh? Within 48 hours of being hand-picked every cherry has made its way from the tree to its prospective market in Italy, France, Canada, United States, Germany, England or China. Currently they bring to your market 35 acres worth of Lapins, Sweetheart, and Rainier cherries. Soon though, they will also carry later varieties which will be available in 2012. Since their primary focus is on the largest and sweetest cherries, every June Herring will have half of the crop hand-thinned to allow the remaining cherries more room to grow and less competition for nutrients and sunlight for optimal growth and sweetness. Is your mouth watering yet? Mine is!
Homegrown Organic Farms
Spread over 3,500 acres of lush, fertile farmlands in California and Oregon, each of the 40-plus USDA organic-certified growers brings something different to the table at Homegrown Organic Farms (HGO). Local growers who are as diverse as the various fruits and vegetables they harvest, they also have unique stories to tell of why each switched to organic farming—whether for health, economic or environmental reasons. A fundamental philosophical shift to grow natural, tasty food without using chemicals HGO’s goal to provide food safety and transparency to consumers requires: 1) USDA organic certification for all produce and 2) welcoming unannounced third-party organic certifiers to visit their farms.
Honey Ridge Farms
A passion for honey and the belief that honey is nature’s best sweetener. That’s the foundation for Honey Ridge Farms, founded in 2004 by Leeanne and John Goetz . Located in Brush Prairie, WA, Honey Ridge Farms is committed to providing you with high-quality specialty gourmet honeys and other honey-based foods. Its first artisan honey was Wild Blackberry from Washington and Oregon. The company (run by this 5th generation beekeeping family) now offers additional single floral source artisan honey from the western U.S., and other all-natural honey-based gourmet foods.
Hope Creamery
Located in Hope, Minnesota, Hope Creamery is one of the only independently owned creameries in the state churning out butter in small batches the old-fashioned way. Made from fresh, local cream, the company’s Grade A butter is prized by chefs, bakers and consumers. With a taste and texture comparable to European butter, it is available in salted, unsalted and organic varieties. Hope Creamy is owned and operated by Victor Mrotz, who purchased the creamery in 2000. Mrotz moved from the Twin Cities back to his family’s farm with his wife Kellie, who manages the company’s books and raises their two children.
Hula Brothers
The Hamiltons started farming in 1979 with their fruit tree nursery. Their success led them to start growing tropical exotic fruits on old sugar cane land on the Big Island of Hawaii. Today the Hamilton’s farm about 70 acres of exotic fruits on the lower Puna slopes of the Big Island.
The Hamilton family, Hula Brothers, are growers and packers of fresh Hawaii grown exotic fruits, particularly Longan and Rambutan which are available here at FromTheFarm.com direct from the source.
Joe Jurgielewicz & Son
The heritage of Joe Jurgielewicz & Son is now in its fourth generation of raising Pekin Duck. As a farming family, we embrace the daily chores, our community, and this delicate land that is entrusted to our care. By attending to these priorities, we have cultivated an environment to raise the most healthy and succulent duck in America. Our research facility is a landmark of science applauded by the agricultural, academic, and culinary communities. It is here that our veterinarians and biologists develop natural feed formulas, critical duckling care, waste management, and the duck house living standards. My breed is natural and we have never employed genetic tampering or growth hormones.
Kalapana Tropicals
Kalapana Tropicals Inc. is a family owned and operated orchid farm located south east of Hilo on the Big Island of Hawaii. Owners John & Mindi Clark started Kalapana Tropicals in 1987 as a dendrobium orchid cut flower farm in the area of Kalapana and then expanded in to growing orchids for potted plants in 1993 with a second nursery in the area of Kurtistown 20 miles away.
Koda Farms
Koda Farms is the oldest, continuously family-owned and operated rice farm in California. Keisaburo Koda immigrated to the San Joaquin Valley town of Dos Palos where he built and operated a thriving rice growing, drying and milling operation. He created a corporation with his American-born children as stockholders to comply with the Alien Land Law of 1913, which denied aliens ineligible for citizenship the right to own land in California. To this day, Koda Farms is the sole grower of this proprietary strain, which is legendary in the food industry for its unique and superior taste and appearance.
Lone Star Citrus
Lone Star Citrus is located in the lush Rio Grande Valley of Texas, which is home to the world’s finest Red grapefruit. The unique combination of rich soil type and semi tropical climate produce a sweet juicy grapefruit that cannot be duplicated anywhere else in the world. This special fruit is available from October through April.
Lone Willow Ranch
Lone Willow Ranch sits along California’s San Joaquin River, which provides ideal soil and climate conditions for growing heirloom tomatoes. The ranch is owned and operated by John M. Teixeira and has been organic certified for the past 13 years. Lone Willow Ranch markets 57 varieties of heirloom tomatoes, including Green Zebra, Hillbilly, Moon Glow and Brandywine OTV. Each variety has its own distinctive flavor, color and texture. The tomatoes are hand harvested twice a week at their peak of flavor. The fruit is taken out of the field, packed under the trees and put into boxes for same-day delivery. The ranch also grows six varieties of eggplant, bell peppers and a large variety of melons and corn.
Lucich/Santos Farms
Blossom Hill Packing/Lucich and Santos Farms have specialized in growing apricots for the past 35 years. Located in Patterson, CA, the family has been farming for more than 90 years and takes great pride in providing good-tasting, high-quality fruit to its customers. This grower-shipper has more than 15 apricot varieties planted for the fresh market, as well as conventional and organic peaches, nectarines, cherries, pluots and apriums. About 120 acres of the farms’ 800 acres are certified organic, and they are working to certify another 80 acres in the coming years. They also maintain a five-acre experimental block to test new varieties and hybrids of cherries, pluots, apriums and the peacotum, a cross between peach, apricot and plum.
Montana Monster Munchies
Since 1983, Montana Monster Munchies has produced a wheat-free cookie with oats as the main attraction in its renowned cookie lines. The more we looked at the oats the more we were intrigued with its pure state qualities. It is a gluten-free (GF) grain in its pure state, and if it weren’t for the cross-contamination that occurs in the large/commercial oat growing, harvesting and milling process; oats would be at the top of the grain food chain of GF items.
Mozambique Spice Company
It’s exotic, exciting, adventurous... It’s also warm, relaxing and friendly. Portuguese sailors discovered Mozambique on one of the many stops they made to replenish supplies while on their way to the spice-rich countries in the East and Far East. Its coastline is rich in tropical fruits, seafood and other staples needed for the long days and nights at sea...and it was here that they discovered a little known spice called Peri-Peri.
Naumes Inc.
Naumes Inc. was established in 1946 by Joe Naumes and Steve Nye after both men returned from active duty in World War II. Joe, having served in the Pacific with the Navy and Steve in Europe with the Army. Originally established as a packing company called Nye and Naumes Co. Inc., it eventually acquired orchards and soon packed only its own product. The company was now farming nearly 7,500 acres.
OG Nut Company
OG Nut Company is ran by th Gogna and Gotelli Families. This family owned and operated business represents three generations in the Linden California area with a clear specialization in walnuts, almonds, cherries, blueberries and apricots. The company is fortunate to have a highly trained and experienced group of management and staff professionals. O G Nut also represents an outstanding group of local family growers throughout the Linden area.
Ohana Banana Farms
Father-and-son team of Michael and Young Tarring spend long days together raising their special apple bananas on the slopes of Kilauea, HI. The combination of the tropical sun and life-giving rain provide ideal conditions for year-round harvests and allow them to distribute their apple bananas throughout the state and the mainland under the Hawaiian Candy Apple Bananas brand.
OK Farms
Grower Story- Ok Farms LLC was founded in 2002 by Edmund C Olson and Troy Keolanui. Our 400 acre farm near the heart of Hilo, Hawaii and adjacent to the largest river in the Hawaiian island, the Wailuku, is a perfect growing area for many diverse crops. Our farm specializes in Macadamia nuts and estate grown coffee, however we do also grow tropical fruit, citrus, heart of palm, cacao, and fresh spices. We have an agro-tourism program on the property with scenic overlooks, hiking trails, and a full size soccer field used by the community.
Onions Etc., Inc.
Onions, Etc. is owned by Derrell Kelso, Jr., a fifth-generation farmer. Derrell’s father migrated to California in 1960 from Merckal, Texas, where his father and grandfather were dry land farmers; Derrell’s uncle still farms there today. Derrell’s dad came to California as an employee of Chevron Chemical, known as Ortho, where he sold fertilizers and advised growers about horticultural issues. In 1969, the family started Kelso Truck Farm, where they grew five acres of Italian sweet onions, sweet corn, tomatoes, bell peppers, black eyed peas and many other crops for 300 families that canned and froze their fresh produce for the winter.
Oregon Berry Packaging, Inc.
Oregon Berry Packing Company delivers mouth-watering Northwest blueberries, blackberries, strawberries, black raspberries and red raspberries to premium buyers around the world. Grown, picked and packaged under the strictest quality standards, our juicy, ripe blueberries, blackberries, and red raspberries go from field to market in two days or less. Since 1948, three generations of the Malensky family have dedicated themselves to providing premium fresh and frozen berries with unparalleled customer service.
Oregon Hill Farms
Tom and Carmen McMahon operate Oregon Hill Farms located out of Saint Helens, Oregon. The became the owners in 2005, when the previous owners retired. The McMahons operate Oregon Hill Farms along with their family and the Oregon Hill family of employees. Oregon Hill Farms is proud to offer FromTheFarm.com customers the very best jams, preserves, syrups, fruit butters, and dry mixes.
OSO Sweet Onions
Twenty years ago, Americans had a difficult time finding enough sweet onions to satisfy their cravings. The season was short, from spring to early summer, and only two main areas in the U.S. grew them. That’s when two onions brokers began a three-year quest to find just the right seed variety and place to grow super-sweet onions that Americans could enjoy all winter long. They chose a spot at the foothills of the Andes Mountains in Chile, where the rich, volcanic soil and perfect micro-climate were ideal for growing very sweet, mild (think tearless), flavorful onions. Their search and patience paid off with the introduction of the world-class OSOSweet onion.
Passion Fruit Farms
Passion Fruit Farms is run by third generation fig farmer Tonetta Simone Gladwin and her husband, Blair Gladwin. Tonetta, the “fig lady,” handles sales, marketing and supervision of the picking and planting schedules, while Blair does all the farming, shipping and purchasing. Tonetta’s grandfather, Mauro Simone, planted and farmed many of the first fig orchards in California’s San Joaquin Valley and was a true pioneer in the fresh and dry fig industry. Handling one of the most perishable fresh fruit commodities takes more than luck and timing; it takes skill and commitment. Within 24 hours of being picked, their product is on its way toward its destination.
Prima Frutta Packing, Co.
Hoping to provide his family with a better life, Alex Sambado sold his San Francisco grocery store in the 1940s to move his family to rural Linden, CA. He purchased a cherry and walnut orchard and never would have guessed that his bold move would change the lives of the Sambado family for generations to come. In the 1980s, Alex’s son, Lawrence, decided to make another daring move and reorganized the company his father founded to form Primavera Marketing, Inc. Lawrence partnered with Ross Westbrook, whose family had been in the wine and table grape business for three generations.
Prima Noce Packing
Prima Noce handles only the highest quality walnuts from the best growers located in the fertile San Joaquin Valley. With pride, commitment and experience in the walnut industry, our mission is to provide our customers with the best product possible.
Rainbow Ranch Farms
Rainbow Ranch Farms is a small family farm located in San Bernardino County, CA (southern, CA) since 1991. Protocal at Rainbow Ranch is to raise livestock in a humane, sanitary, stress free, cage free, safe and clean environment. Rainbow Ranch Farms' effective eco-system practices are environmentally friendly & ecologically safe, which assures a strong foundation to continue building on a productive self sustainable living system. Rainbow Ranch Farms is proud to bring to FromTheFarm.com their Organic Heritage Turkeys.
Rowenas
Three backyard fruit tress sparked what is today a Rowena's, Inc, in Norfolk, Virginia. As word spread about the "cake lady," requests for Rowena's specialty food exceed the capabilites of her home kitchen. She opened her gourment manufacturing facility in May of 1983. Rowena and her staff take personal responsibility to ensure that each cusotmer and product recieves a large measure of their finest ingredient: Tender, Loving Care.
Royal Hawaiian Honey
Royal Hawaiian Honeys are 100% raw, single-source varietal honeys harvested by a family-owned apiary on the Big Island of Hawaii. Their location is truly paradise for bees: It has the perfect combination of enough moisture and rain, abundant, year-round nectar sources, and mild temperatures. Royal Hawaiian Honeys are produced by beekeeper Michael Krones. He learned the art of keeping bees in Costa Rica in the 1970s from a wise old man names Winston McGee, and has kept bees in Hawaii since 1996.
Rushing Waters Fisheries
Rushing Waters Fisheries is located in Palmyra, Wisconsin on 80 acres of forests and valleys, 56 ponds are fed with crystal-clear artesian spring water. These deep underground springs maintain a very cold water temperature ideal for producing healthy rainbow trout. Rushing Waters Fisheries has been growing rainbow trout since the 1940s. Fish are harvested to order. That means your fish are swimming when we receive your order. The trout is processed in a HACCP-certified plant according to strict quality-assured guidelines and you have the opportunity to recieve your order within 24 - 48 hours of harvest! Rushin Waters Fisheries brings to you their fresh rainbow trout and award-winning smoked fish.
Shady Oaks Farm
Shady Oaks Farm is located in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley. Our Arbosana, Arbequina, and Koreniki Extra Virgin Olive Oil is grown, harvested and bottled in Lodi, California. Shady oaks is owned by Phyllis and Fritz Grupe, whos great grandfather arrived in California in 1849 in search of gold. The Grupe family farming now spans three centuries and six generations- growers of wine grapes, olives, cherries, apples, walnuts and cattle. From humble beginnings, Fritz and Phyllis have capitalized on real estate and agricultural opportunities. Their work is continued by their children and grandchildren. Shady Oaks Olive Oil is the embodiment of that rich history and legacy.
SideCreek Farms
Nestled in a gentle forest fed by pristine mountain springs, Patrick and Vilma McDougall quietly nurture their passion—growing organic shiitake. SideCreek Farms LLC in North Carolina is a hidden gem located in an environmentally protected area. It’s also the first property receiving pure spring water from the Blue Ridge Mountains. Its little wonder SideCreek Farms’ organic shiitake sprout a rich, earthy flavor and is chockfull of nutrition.
Sierra Olive Oil
Sierra Olive Oil is known for its award-winning Mission/Lucca Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Located in the Sierra Nevada foothills of Chinese Camp (near Yosemite), the company hand produces each bottle of olive oil to ensure freshness and high-quality flavor. The company planted Mission and Lucca olive trees 13 years ago and is now in its sixth year of olive oil production. Coincidentally, the company’s location is the same latitude as the famous Italian olive oil regions of Puglia, Calabria and Sicily. All of the company’s oil is extra virgin without any additives, preservatives, chemicals or heat used during the extraction process. Old family recipes are used to make the company’s popular EVOO Blends.
Specialty Potato Alliance
To Jill Overdorf of the Specialty Potato Alliance (SPA), fingerlings are the most flavorful potatoes. Ever. “Imagine the richest, most buttery flavor and multiply that by five times,” she urges. A professionally trained chef, this potato proponent has seen fingerlings rise in popularity with home cooks since European chefs introduced them in New York City restaurants ten years ago. And seeded a national hunger for a flavorful gourmet variation of the humble spud. SPA partners with two family farms—Rocky Farms LLC in Colorado’s San Luis Valley and Lehr Brothers in Bakersfield, California—who produce the bulk of fingerlings shipped. Suppliers from Idaho, Wisconsin, the Dakotas and Nebraska make this a year-round offering for consumers.
Summeripe Worldwide
Summeripe® peaches, nectarines, plums and pluots from the “Fruit Basket of the World” are renowned for their luscious and distinctive flavors. Located in Reedley, California Summeripe® was started by owner Mike Thurlow and his wife Peggy in 1997. Today, Summeripe® tree-ripened fruits are in stores all over North America. Blessed by a favorable climate, perfect soil conditions and pure snowmelt from the Sierra Nevada Mountains, stone fruits from the world’s legendary fruit basket are in a class of their own.
Sun Harvest Citrus
Sun Harvest Citrus is celebrating a journey. For 20 years, Indian River citrus has been traveling from our groves to doorsteps across America.While we’d have to humbly agree that our citrus is first class, our double decade adventure has been made even sweeter by our traveling companions: faithful customers, dedicated employees, and well-respected ancestors who handed us a legacy to carry on.
Texas Olive Ranch
Texas Olive Ranch's orchard is between Carrizo Springs and Asherton in the Middle Rio Grande Valley, north of Laredo, south of San Antonio, east of Eagle Pass. Texas Olive Ranch grows and cold presses arbequina olives for the freshest, most flavorful extra virgin olive available. They also have olive trees for landscaping and nursery stock. Jim Henry has been running Texas Olive Ranch for fifteen years out of Texas. Jim Henry is a first generation olive farmer coming from a long line of dairy farmers.
The Kelso Family
My name is Derrell Kelso, I am the owner of FromTheFarm.com. I was born and raised in a small farming community in Clarksburg, California on the Sacramento River Delta in Northern California between Sacramento and Stockton (to the south). The following Kitchen Art derived from old family produce labels my father collected. No matter if you want this for your personal kitchen or for a restaurant, I guarantee you will absolutely love this unique canvas kitchen art. These old, old produce labels have history, color, and will add character to your home or restaurant.
True Blue Farms
True Blue Farms is owned and operated by Dennis & Shelly Hartmann. Blueberry farming has been a long time tradition in the Hartmann family, dating back to the early 1990's when blueberries were first poineered in Michigan. True Blue Farms continues that tradition by being a family managed operation of Grand Junction, Michigan, the "Blueberry Capital of the World." The farm consists of 150 acres of producing berries with twelve distinct varieties. True Blue Farms is happy to offer you their farm-fresh blueberries straight from their farm.
Turnbull Farms
Turnbull Farms is located in Bloomington, IN, ran by Zachary Turnbull. He has been raising quail for about 5 years and started selling to the public in 2008. Zachary Turnbull comes from a long generation of farmers back when his ancestors first arrived in the United States from Scotland in 1884 and started a undertaker/livery business that is still family owned and operated today.
Vacaville Fruit Company
Since 1960, our family owned and operated company, has established a rich history in the packaging of the finest dried fruits and nuts. Originally, a dry yard of California fruits for 40 years, we now continue our tradition of nutritious, full flavored, and beautifully arranged gift baskets. Always hand packed to order, we guarantee our customer the freshest, tastiest selections of quality dried fruits and nuts. We invite you to visit our website to view our full line of gifts and to join the many thousands who have enjoyed the bounty of Vacaville Fruit Company over the decades.
Valley Blue Farms
Valley Blue Farms’ mission is to provide the finest product for our customers. By having the processing plant located near the blueberry fields, we are able to pick the blueberries when they are ripened to perfection and quickly process them. Our fruit goes to the freezer within 24 hours of harvesting to maximize the taste and health benefits.
Veg-Land Inc.
Veg-Land Inc. was founded in 1976 by brothers Jim & John Matiasevich for the purpose of consolidating all the mixed produce and floral products for Safeway stores throughout the U.S. and Canada. Today Veg-Land operates out of a 105,000 sqft warehouse in Fullerton, Ca. providing the following services; Cross Docking, Consolidation, Storage – Wet and Dry, Repacking and local Transporation.
Venice Bakery
Founded in 1950, Venice Bakery is one of the country’s largest family-owned pizza manufacturers. We supply the food service industry, grocery stores and markets, as well as restaurants and pizza chains across America. From our humble beginnings of artisanal breads and crusts, Venice continues to satisfy customers with a wide variety of delicious, convenient, and health conscious products.
Victoria Island Farms
Victoria Island Farms strives to supply wholesome products of consistently high quality to their customers while maintaining outstanding integrity. The Nichols Family has owned and operated Victoria Island Farms since 1964. Victoria Island Farms is located on Victoria Island in the southern part of the California Delta. They have been growing and packing asparagus for 22 years and blueberries for six years. The Nichols Family is proud to offer FromTheFarm.com great tasting asparagus and blueberries.
Willamette Valley Fruit Company
Willamette Valley fruit Comany was founded by three farm families back in 1999. G&C Farms was founded by Gerald and Carolyn Roth, 2nd generation farmers, and is now ran by their children and grandchildren. Dave Dunn has been in food processing for over 30 years and is the General Manager (as well as one of the three founders) of WVFC. The third founder has since retired and sold his shares back to the company.
Williams Cheese Company
The Williams family started their cheesemaking business more than 60 years ago using an old barn as its warehouse along Michigan’s Saginaw Bay. Today, Williams Cheese Company has become one of Michigan’s largest specialty cheesemakers producing more than 5 million pounds of cheese annually.
Willow Haven Farms
The Willow Haven Farms brand captures the spirit of JR Tolkien “Old Man Willow”. Certified organic since 1987. Transitional sustainable since 2003. Third generation tree farmers, multi- generation operated. All farming, harvesting, processing, and handling performed by family. Less than 50 gallons of diesel fuel used per year to produce the products. Site located within five miles of oldest fruit and nut trees in California circa 1850, rich in agricultural history from Native Americans to the Spanish settlers. Site located in a narrow strip of land designated by the USDA as “Prime” citrus climate and conditions. We use our own water produced from deep wells, safe from exposure to surface contaminations, exempt from government interference. Water table rises with each earthquake. Each shipment includes a carbon footprint certification of the product, excluding shipping footprint.
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