The Kroger Co. has launched a digital farmers market in Atlanta in partnership with Market Wagon. Developed as an e-commerce marketplace for local farmers and businesses, the service is a digital platform that offers customers a wide range of fresh, local products.

The delivery-only service offers a uniquely local assortment of over 1,150 local products by grouping local vendors together, including local farmers, bakeries and food artisans. All items found on Kroger Farmers Market are exclusive to the service and cannot yet be found at Kroger stores.

"Kroger's new digital farmers market

Vallarta Supermarkets, one of the largest Latino-owned supermarket chains in California, partnered with Flashfood, a digital marketplace that provides customers access to heavily discounted food nearing its best-by date. The five-store pilot will bring the app to Los Angeles County shoppers in Palmdale and Lancaster for the first time, expanding Flashfood's presence across the U.S. from coast-to-coast.

Flashfood aims to eliminate food waste at the retail level by connecting shoppers with savings up to 50 percent on food nearing its best by date that would otherwise be thrown away. The

With the recent announcement of a series of regional listening sessions to inform creation of the U.S. nutrition security blueprint to be unveiled at the White House Conference on Hunger, Nutrition & Health in September, the International Fresh Produce Association enlisted a broad cross-section of its membership to participate in the sessions and ensure the fresh fruit and vegetable community is represented and heard.

“With the conference coming in September, the administration is quickly undertaking the stakeholder feedback process via these listening sessions, so it was imperative that we

Brighter Bites has partnered with DoorDash via its Project DASH initiative to increase fresh produce accessibility to children and their families in New York City, Houston, and Washington, DC.

Through this partnership, DoorDash’s Project DASH makes it possible for families facing transportation barriers to participate in the Brighter Bites program. DoorDash drivers will go to select enrolled schools to gather the produce boxes and deliver them directly to a family's doorstep. By using the same technology available to DoorDash’s merchant partners, Brighter Bites can reach families in an

Bolthouse Farms and Starbucks entered into a definitive agreement for Bolthouse Farms to acquire the brand and business of Evolution Fresh. The employees that support the business will also transition to Bolthouse Farms later this year upon close of the transaction.

Evolution Fresh is a producer of primarily organic, cold-pressed, premium juice products. By joining with Bolthouse Farms Evolution Fresh will have the opportunity to accelerate its growth trajectory while Starbucks focuses its efforts on the growth of the core Starbucks business and its partner and customer experience.

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The transition from winter to spring and summer crops has begun, and the product quality and markets are looking very good. The summer, with its warmer weather, is salad time. Plan to spruce up and expand your lettuce, cucumber, celery and tomato sections now.

Lettuce: Excellent weather is bringing on very timely product. Iceberg lettuce demand out of Salinas is fairly good on a steady market. Green Leaf demand is good, and the market is slightly higher. Red Leaf demand is fairly good with a steady market. Romaine and Romaine Hearts are seeing a steady supply with good demand — promote