UNFI Picks Up Living Greens Farm Products in Midwest Expansion

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Living Greens Farm (LGF), the largest vertical, indoor aeroponic farm in the US that provides year-round fresh salads, salad kits, microgreens and herbs, announced the addition of significant new retail distribution of its products in the upper Midwest to independent, specialty, and co-op retailers.

Starting February 2021, LGF’s full line of products featuring ready-to-eat bagged salad products (Caesar Salad Kit, Southwest Salad Kit, Harvest Salad Kit, Chopped Romaine, and Chopped Butter Lettuce) will be carried by UNFI Produce Prescott (formerly Alberts Fresh Produce). UNFI Produce Prescott is a division of UNFI, which distributes food products to thousands of stores nationwide. Their focus is on independent, specialty and co-op retailers.

UNFI has eight warehouses nationwide. LGF’s products will be carried by their upper Midwest location, located just across the river from the Twin Cities in Prescott, WI. This distribution center services hundreds of retailers throughout Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, North Dakota, South Dakota, Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska. UNFI is the first national Certified Organic distributor, something they take a lot of pride in. Their produce and floral businesses are rooted in local farms and seasonal import growers.

LGF’s proprietary vertical indoor farming method yields the highest quality and freshest produce available. This is because there are no pesticides or chemicals used in the growing process. And because LGF’s growing, cleaning and bagging process significantly reduces handling and time to the retail shelf, consumers enjoy the freshest product on the market. These benefits continue to attract new users and new retail distribution as UNFI Produce Prescott is the second UNFI location to carry LGF. In December, UNFI’s Hopkins, MN location began offering LGF products.

For more information on why Living Greens Farm products are the cleanest, freshest and healthiest farm salads and greens available, go to www.livinggreensfarm.com.

British Soil-Free Farming Start-Up Prepares For First Harvest

British Soil-Free Farming Start-Up Prepares For First Harvest

British start-up Airponix will later this month harvest its first large crop of potatoes grown without soil, in a promising sign for a technology that claims it can deliver high vegetable yields with minimal costs and environmental degradation.
 

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At its new 1,000 square metre greenhouse in Norfolk, Airponix has ditched soil to grow potatoes using a nutrient-rich "fog" sprayed out of modified inkjet printers down long polythene tunnels of crops.

"Trials of our breakthrough technology means that we can produce crops, such as potatoes, with lower production costs and higher quality, competing strongly against conventionally grown new baby potatoes," said co-founder Michael Ruggier in a statement.

"The potential cost of the system is very low and requires little energy to operate," he added. "Manual labour is also greatly reduced because harvesting is a simple clean process and root crops don't need washing. This means that everyone can benefit from our technology and it has the potential to guarantee high-yield high quality food production independent of external environmental conditions."

The technology is suitable for food production even in arid or degraded regions, and without the need for herbicides, fungicides or pesticides, Airponix claims.

The company says its system is an improvement on rival aeroponic growing methods thanks to its fine spray technology, which produces tiny water droplets better suited to staple food crops such as rice, wheat or potatoes.

The first crop of potatoes from its Norfolk greenhouse will be harvested at the end of the month.

Source: Business Green
 

Publication date: 5/1/2018