After two years of torture from Mother Nature, vegetable crops in south Florida are finally getting a chance to come to market in full-force this spring.

Chris Christian

The retail and foodservice sectors will both be recipients of outreach activities from the California St

Spring is in the air and California strawberries are on supermarket shelves. There is nothing more pleasurable and exciting than seeing all those nice, colorful displays of premium California strawberries when entering supermarket produce departments. It sends a nice, warm feeling and opens the gates to the upcoming summer season.

The 2012 California strawberry crop got off to a good start during the months of January, February and early March, with shipments to date tracking ahead of the same date last year, ahead of shipments to date in 2010 (which was a record year for California strawberry