LISBON For domestic violence victim advocate Beth Schmitt, the last nearly 30 years has been about helping victims and their children leave the darkness beh
LISBON For domestic violence victim advocate Beth Schmitt, the last nearly 30 years has been about helping victims and their children leave the darkness beh
LISBON For domestic violence victim advocate Beth Schmitt, the last nearly 30 years has been about helping victims and their children leave the darkness behind. Now she’s stepping away to let someone else continue the mission, saying it’s time. Schmitt quietly made the decision recently to retire effective Friday after 25 1/2 years as […]
December 17, 2020
Pete’s, the California-based produce company specializing in hydroponically grown living lettuce and cress varieties in addition to butter lettuce wrap kits, will debut an innovative and sustainable new line of packaged salad varieties, Greenhouse Fresh, in retail locations in and around the West Coast in early January.
Available in four varieties Benevolent Butter, Hydro Spring Mix, Indoor Romaine and Nice & Crunchy Pete’s Greenhouse Fresh offers environmentally-conscious consumers a range of fresh and sustainable packaged salad varieties that use 90 percent less land and water compared to field grown product.
These indoor-grown lettuce varieties are also protected from outside elements and do not use triple washing post-harvest the same way many traditionally grown greens do, resulting in less water used during the harvesting process.