Lipman partners with Phil Sandifer & Sons Farm
Lipman partners with Phil Sandifer & Sons Farm
Lipman is expanding its local portfolio with the addition of Phil Sandifer & Sons Farm in Blackville, SC. Through this partnership, the two will work together to supply locally grown South Carolina produce to grocery stores, food service operators and other companies around the country.
Like Lipman, Phil Sandifer & Sons Farm takes pride in being a family business. The family farm is overseen by Phil Sandifer and his two sons, Chris and Scotty, with the assistance of grandchildren during school breaks. A third-generation produce farm, Sandifer & Sons is among the largest Eastern Athena cantaloupe grower-packer-shippers in the state of South Carolina.
Athena cantaloupe season runs the full months of June and July. In early spring, the operation harvests vegetables. During the months of July and August, Sandifer & Sons Farm also grows Caribbean King Cantaloupes and mini personal seedless watermelons. In September and October, the farm grows, packs and ships fall vegetables.
“Partnering with Lipman was a perfect fit for us,” Sandifer said in a press release. “Our company values are very similar. We both take tremendous pride in food quality and safety, as well as providing our customers with the freshest and best tasting produce available.”
