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New Appalachian Strawberry Greenhouse Grower Packages Green

Glenmary Berries needed a bigger 1.5 Pint size of the Sustainable Produce Containers for their greenhouse grown strawberries.
Michael Richard, owner of Glenmary Farms, has been farming for several years. But in 2019 he set out to grow the best tasting strawberry that would be available year-round. Despite the many challenges of a startup business, he was committed from the beginning to growing and packaging his produce sustainably. Because most recycling centers won't take clamshell and billions end up in landfills annually, that meant no plastic. In the fall of 2020 through a google search he found the Sustainable Produce Container, created one year before by cherry tomato farmer Linda Fritz of Sun Sugar Farms in Verona, KY.
"At this point we hadn't even broken ground for the greenhouse," says Richard. "But we've always centered our business around leaving a positive environmental impact. When I started talking with Linda about her containers and the service she could provide, it was the type of package and partnership we were looking for. Linda's company designed the graphics on the box to help us share that message with our customers. She also created a new 1.5 Pint size for us to accommodate how big some of our berries ended up growing."
Richard's efforts are paying off and his berries are now available in area stores. One of the first major retailers to carry his strawberries is Food City. Food City is a privately held company with more than 75 retail food outlets in southeastern Kentucky, southwestern Virginia and northeastern Tennessee.
"One of the buyers of the Food City stores happened to stop at our produce stand where we sell direct to consumers," Richard explains. "He was blown away by how much better our strawberries looked than what was coming out of California and that he'd never tasted as good of a berry. And, while we were talking, a woman came up and said she really loved that there was no plastic in the boxes."
Richard says he is hoping to expand to other retail grocery stores as his berry operation ramps up. "It's not been easy and it's not been cheap," Richard comments. "But we're hoping to partner with more retailers committed to quality produce and to leaving a positive impact on the earth."
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1258 MADDOX LN, Verona KY 41092
Email linda@sunsugarfarms.com
Sun Sugar Farms is a small commercial farm specializing in sustainably grown sun sugar cherry tomatoes and reusable or recyclable items that cut down on waste in the world.
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