SpartanNash recently achieved a significant milestone in its collaboration with technology company Flashfood. In its first three years, the company and the app-based marketplace have successfully diverted an impressive 1 million pounds of food waste and saved families $1.9 million on their groceries.

Reducing food waste and providing affordable access to nutrition are key elements of SpartanNash's environmental, social and governance strategy, which aims to promote healthy lives and well-being for all.

Much has changed at D’Arrigo New York over its 75-year history of serving the New York City area’s produce needs.

Back at its founding, the company could get by offering a basic assortment of fruits and vegetables to fulfill the needs of its customers. Today, D’Arrigo New York, a privately-held company that operates out of the Hunts Point Market in The Bronx, needs to focus on the demands of more than 1,500 retail and foodservice customers and dozens and dozens of different ethnic groups in order to stay ahead of the curve in the diverse and vibrant metro New York marketplace.

Greenhouse grown vegetables are grown indoors in an ideal, perfectly controlled environment. This means that they are available year-round and have consistent quality and taste.

In April, New York state hit a big number in its increasing effort to protect dwindling farmland.

The question is whether what the state government is doing, and what many other states are also trying to accomplish, is enough to reverse a trend that is seeing much of the nation’s farmland in jeopardy of being sold and turned into something else.

With the West Mexico vegetable season in the rearview mirror and the Sonoran table grape crop wrapping up later this month, Nogales, AZ-based grower-distributor Divine Flavor will shift its focus to the summer programs starting in Central Mexico and Baja California to complement its year-round portfolio.

Smith’s Farm has established itself as a premier vegetable grower on the East Coast, but as it strives to continually increase efficiency in its operations, it is embracing technology and business partnerships to offer the best service possible to its customers.