New California growing region for lettuce
Organic and conventional lettuce shipments are underway out of Ventura County, California. “The growing season has been almost ideal for romaine and leaf lettuce, and ourselves and other shippers are up and running here,” says Tom Deardorff, II of Deardorff Family Farms.
The move to Ventura County for the grower-shipper follows last year’s Impatiens Necrotic Spot Virus
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