Fresh Produce Sourcing

Items unavailable through the Green Light label are easily sourced through our expansive grower network by our purchasing team. This includes key growers throughout the United States including leafy greens, cabbage, tender greens, citrus, berries, stone fruit, apples, tomatoes, grapes, carrots, and more. 

Our extensive grower network, which includes over 100 growers, shippers, and processors, is available to build out mixed loads. We have multiple time-per-week transfers of products like romaine, iceberg lettuce, green leaf, onion, strawberries, citrus, cabbage, spinach, tender greens, carrots, apples, pears, organics, and specialty items from all points of origin around the West Coast and many ports of entry. 

All together our team has many connections, ties, and knowledge of the growers throughout the industry. In particular they look for mid-size growers that have excellent produce and are able to scale for national chains, but are not-so-big that they aren’t agile to a customer’s specific needs.  Additionally we know growers with hard-to-find specialty items, the perfect balance of scale and agility, and little known best-in-season finds.

To a degree, most everyone in produce is involved in produce brokerage. It’s impossible for any one grower to have the wide variety available with fresh fruits and vegetables, and often to combine items on one load, growers will source other items for their customers. This is exactly what we do, if our customer needs a certain set of items, we’ll source them from our own label and bring in our growing network for the rest.