From Maine to Miami, local is what makes Bushwick Commission the successful organization it is today.

Since 1934, the Koondel family did what they do best: serve their community. From their original produce stands and push carts in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn to its current status as a full-service supplier offering daily delivery up and down the East Coast, Bushwick continues to be focused on the value of providing locally grown produce to retail customers of all sizes that are looking for fresh foods that give their customers the sustainable choices they desire.

They call it the Parker Promise. It is the oath, made decades ago by company officials, that Parker Farms, now a third-generation family-owned-and-operated business, is dedicated to creating solutions for its customers produce and logistic needs, while also generating extraordinary value for its growers and providing a dynamic, challenging and rewarding workplace for its employees.

That promise is still the engine that keeps this Oak Grove, Va.-based company operating on all cylinders and giving its growers and customers the consistency they need and demand.

A.J. Trucco, which operates out of the Hunts Point Produce Market in the Bronx, NY, traces its roots to 1937 among the stands of the Washington Street Produce Market in downtown Manhattan. Over the years, the company has established itself as one of the most reputable and reliable produce distributorships in the industry.

The New York Apple Association wants to keep apples top of mind for retailers and consumers across the country.

The association, which was created in 1994 when the Eastern New York growers and the Western New York Apple Growers Association merged, helps to promote state apple farmers and their products as well as supplying marketing and communications support and conducting consumer research.  New York State is the second largest producer of apples in the United States.

What started small has now grown into a major apple breeding program that is bringing a lot of attention, as well as sales and profits, to many New York state apple growers.

A little more than a decade ago, a small group of growers in the Empire State formed Crunch Time Apple Growers for the purpose of growing and marketing apples developed by the apple breeding program at Cornell University in Ithaca, NY.   

Since starting Satur Farms more than 25 years ago, Paulette Satur and Eberhard Muller have dedicated their lives to growing the highest-quality field-grown baby leaf items, spring mixes and other products here on the bucolic North Fork of Long Island.

Clients, including retailers and restaurants in the New York metropolitan area and beyond, eagerly await the fresh and flavorful bounty produced each season under the Satur Farms label.