Ocean Mist Farms, a leading grower and marketer of organics in the U.S., offer artichokes, iceberg, celery, broccoli, cauliflower, and romaine hearts in its organic product line. The company has been cultivating organic artichokes since 2000, and in 2015, it added a full line of organic vegetables.

If ever there was a kid destined to be a farmer, it is Dick Peixoto, owner and founder of Watsonville, CA-based Lakeside Organic Gardens.

Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A. Inc., one of North America’s leading marketers and distributors of high-quality fresh and fresh-cut fruit and vegetables, announced the expansion of its organic fresh-cut fruit production in North America, specifically in the United States and Canada. This expansion will allow Fresh Del Monte to continue growing its fresh-cut fruit and organic fresh-cut fruit businesses nationally, while diversifying its variety of produce SKUs.

Until Wada Farms Marketing Group LLC, a major year-round shipper of potatoes and onions based in Idaho Falls, ID, “decided to get into the organic game” about five years ago, there was really nowhere in the industry that buyers could get everything they were looking for in the potato and onion categories in one place, said Eric Beck, Wada’s director of marketing.

Total organic fresh produce sales for the first quarter of 2021 saw a continuation of last year’s growth, increasing by 9.3 percent from the same period in 2020 and topping $2.2 billion for the quarter, according to the Q1 2021 Organic Produce Performance Report released exclusively by Organic Produce Network and Category Partners.

February organic pear and apples sales verified that the pandemic year has been incredibly positive for both categories. Both category organics sales and volumes are up, with organic share greatly increased in the last year.