The impact on
our local apple growers of encroaching vineyards and apple juice concentrate from China has been devastating.
Martinelli's will pay their growers a higher price for tree - ripened fruit, and because it sources apples for its apple juice and sparkling cider primarily from Watsonville's Pajaro Valley, Martinelli's and
the local apple growers have formed a synergy.
Not exact matches
At one time the
local area was the largest
apple market in the West, but eventually Washington state surpassed the Pajaro Valley because the
local growers couldn't supply all of the
apple varieties the market demanded all year long.
True Food Kitchen, which sources food from
local growers and purveyors, has created its fall menu around produce that is at its seasonal peak, such as squash,
apples, arugula, kale, pomegranate and walnuts.
The rise of the
local wine industry made it more profitable for many
apple growers to turn their rich agricultural land from orchards into vineyards.
Companies with robots that can harvest
apples and urban / automated / vertical greens
growers that supply
local retailers made the Thrive Top 50, an annual list of the world's best agriculture technology.
A labor conflict between migrant
apple pickers and the
local growers» association is the backdrop against which Jim Nolan (Franco) becomes involved in the labor movement and rapidly matures as he learns what it means to do organizational fieldwork.