Some produce distributors have tried to make them more enticing by labeling them sunchokes.
Ariane Michas, manager for the alliance, worked out an arrangement that lets the hospitals, as well as other customers, buy from smaller growers via two produce distributors that were already supplying the institutions.
For instance, Gather Baltimore in the US collects edible, unsold or excess produce (up to 30,000 lbs per week) from farmer's market vendors, farms and produce distributors and delivers it to people living in lower income areas of the city.
The bride's father works in Chelsea, Mass., as a wholesale fruit and produce distributor in the Boston area.
211 Lombardy Street (between Gardner and Stewart Avenues) Greenpoint, Brooklyn A produce distributor has signed a five-year lease for half the space in this 80,000-square-foot, one-story warehouse with 30-foot-high ceilings, three interior loading docks and a large drive-in door.
Trying to find a market, three years ago it started sending truckloads of fruit to Shapiro, Gilman & Shandler, a Los Angeles produce distributor.
The produce distributor's president, Andy Weingart, and his wife, Ashley, told The Huffington Post that they used to discard perfectly edible produce because grocery stores have such high cosmetic standards for the fruits and vegetables they sell.
But the low temperatures brought a different set of problems for produce distributors in the region.
Used to making just a few phone calls to large produce distributors, often thousands of miles away, they do not have the setup or the personnel to deal with individual farmers who deliver to the back door.
A 5,455% increase: which if produce distributors did to onions would make a side of rings about 3 grand.
They're shipped all over the country by traditional produce distributors, but because they have earned a reputation, the farmers are able to get much more than commodity prices for them.
