Reply #47: "Natural" is essentially meaningless, and this company has both [View All]

The bagged organic salad capital of the world is a waterslide park for lettuce inside a giant refrigerator on its side in the middle of the San Juan Valley, near San Juan Bautista.
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This is where Earthbound Farm turns 26,000 acres of organic produce, most of it lettuce, into bags carrying the most familiar organic brand in the country. We're looking at millions of servings of organic salad in the making -- 13.5 million a week, and growing.
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That total includes a substantial amount of conventional salad greens grown and bagged by Earthbound, and sold to food service companies or under its Natural Selection label. The conventional part of their business will grow with Earthbound's recent purchase of its neighbor, Pride of San Juan, which will push total production to 40 million servings of salad this year alone.