Despite some extremely dry growing conditions this spring and early summer, Ohio vegetable growers say it helps grow the best quality vegetables.
Buurma Farms Inc. of Willard, OH has a selection of over two dozen vegetables, most of which became available in late June.
Two items introduced about three seasons ago were napa cabbage and bok choy. Both continue to experience an increase in volume.
During June Buurma Farms was introducing items ranging from radishes to dill, cilantro, lettuces, green onions, parsleys, zucchini, cabbage yellow squash and cucumbers.
The last volume item was sweet corn, which started the third week of July.
The 127-year-old family-owned company serves retail, foodservice and wholesale customers primarily east of the Mississippi and has a priority to make fast, overnight deliveries.
Family owned Holthouse Farms of Ohio Inc., base in Willard has a full line of vegetables year-round.
The company’s lead items include dry vegetables such as bell peppers, cucumbers, squashes, eggplant and green beans, and a full line of chili peppers.
The company has been expanding its organic vegetables over the past five years including cucumbers, bell peppers, zucchini squash and yellow squash, which are available from May into fall.
In the late 1980s the company began offering vegetables year-round from Mexico, Texas, Florida, Georgia, North Carolina, New Jersey and Michigan, as well as Ohio.
Wiers Farm Inc. of Willard has a diverse lineup of products grown, packed and shipped in Ohio.
Dry vegetables include bell peppers, slicer cucumbers, pickles, summer squashes, eggplant, specialty and hot peppers, and sweet corn. Wet vegetables include lettuces, greens and herbs.
The operation harvests over 30 different vegetable commodities.
The firm’s Ohio location acts as a consolidation and cross-dock facility for its other growing locations in Georgia, Florida and Mexico.
It is now shipping a full lineup of dry vegetables and a limited lineup of wet vegetables 52 weeks a year, to customers across the Midwest and East Coast.
The fifth-generation family-owned company was established in 1896 and serves retail, foodservice and wholesale customers.