Top 5 - Organic News to Help You Grow #321

1. Top Brass Likes What It Sees in Organic Potatoes

Top Brass is a fourth-generation family farm that handles all aspects of the planting, growing, harvesting, cooling, storage, shipping, and sales of fresh California organic potatoes as well as table grapes, almonds, and pistachios.  Read More

2. World Bee Day: A Jamaican Organic Farmer Says These Furry Creatures Play a Critical Role in Pollinating Her Crops

First observed in 2018, the United Nations designated May 20 as World Bee Day, meant to raise awareness of the importance of these tiny but important pollinators, the threats they face, and the contributions they make to sustainable development. This year's observance spotlights the vital role bees play in pollinating agricultural crops. According to the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), three out of four crops producing food for human consumption depend, at least partly, on pollinators.  Read More

3. Publix Nixes GreenWise Banner

Lakeland, FL-based Publix Super Markets Inc. plans to pull the plug on its GreenWise natural and organic banner. The concept, a smaller-format premium store focused on natural and organic items, was first launched in 2007. Three stores opened in 2007 and 2008 before Publix paused development of the banner and instead incorporated GreenWise as a brand in its standard stores.  Read More 

4. Braga Fresh Launches Two New Vegan Chopped Salad Kits

Your vegan, vegetarian, and flexitarian shoppers are in for a treat as Braga Fresh, home of Josie’s Organics, has introduced two organic, vegan chopped salad kits. This comes just in time for National Salad Month, giving retailers extra merchandising fodder.  Read More

5. Fruit World Embraces Stone Fruit Delay

Fruit World has embraced a delayed start to its stone fruit season to ensure ideal ripening and fruit quality and is now shipping the ripest early cherry varieties—Hazel and Royal Lynn—with the Coral variety soon to follow.  Read More