Cooking Vegetables
Varieties
Sales Strategies
- Many consumers only think about vegetables in terms of side dishes, but cooking vegetables make a tasty addition to many entrees. Offer recipes for stuffed peppers, stuffed potatoes and stir fries.
- Root vegetables have recently been lauded for their health benefits and their versatility in being a carb replacement. Play on those strengths in signage and sales. You can also cross-merchandise them with soup fixings.
- Grilling season offers up a fresh opportunity to promote cooking vegetables as many of these veggies go great on the grill. Cross-promote potatoes, peppers, artichokes and onions with grilling utensils, spices and rubs.
- Samples can help familiarize consumers with lesser-known vegetables.
- Include cooking vegetables in all of your holiday promotions. Asparagus is a favorite around Easter, and broccoli and green beans are a popular side dish for Christmas or Thanksgiving. Don’t forget pumpkins, sweet potatoes and cranberries for those fall holidays. Memorial Day and the Fourth of July are a great time to promote a mix of vegetables that consumers can grill.
- Let your consumers hunt for their own great pumpkin in a pumpkin patch them while using pumpkins to boost the sales of other fall vegetables, like squash.
- During the winter, create a soup vegetable display. Include leeks, celery, potatoes root vegetables and fresh herbs.
Dynamic Displays
- The cooking vegetable category is best displayed in small groupings of similar vegetables. Potatoes and onions are a natural pairing while broccoli, green beans, asparagus and artichokes often find themselves grouped together as they can be served as a stand-alone side dish. Squash, turnips and rutabagas make an eye-catching display when grouped together.
- There is some cross-over with salad vegetables, so decide where those cross-over vegetables work best in your store. Tomatoes and peppers may move better when grouped with the salad vegetables.
- Don’t let your greens get lost in your lettuce display. Give them some space and offer up recipes and cooking tips to get consumers thinking about the many uses of greens.
- Include garlic in your tomato and herb displays to get it moving along with these popular items.
Perfect Pricing
- Because of the variety available within the category, combination pricing promotions are difficult for this category.
- Most vegetables in this category can be priced by the pound or by the piece, whichever works best for the target consumer base.
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Hindingers Farm
Overview
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Business Type:
Broker,
Grower,
Shipper,
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
Hamden, 06514
Connecticut
Berries:
Strawberries
Deciduous Fruit:
Apples, Pears
Stone Fruit:
Nectarines, Peaches, Plums
Cooking Vegetables:
Cabbage, Cauliflower, Corn
Salad Vegetables:
Peppers, Bell
Scotts' CT Valley Orchards
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper
Location HQ:
Deep River, 06417
Connecticut
Berries:
Strawberries
Deciduous Fruit:
Apples, Pears
Melons:
Cantaloupe, Watermelon
Stone Fruit:
Nectarines, Peaches, Plums
Cooking Vegetables:
Cabbage, Corn
Eddy Fruit Farm
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper,
Retailer
Location HQ:
Chesterland, 44026
Ohio
Deciduous Fruit:
Apples, Grapes, Pears
Stone Fruit:
Peaches, Plums
Cooking Vegetables:
Corn
Belltown Hill Orchards LLC
Overview
(1)
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Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper,
Wholesaler
Location HQ:
South Glastonbury, 06073
Connecticut
Berries:
Strawberries
Deciduous Fruit:
Apples, Pears
Stone Fruit:
Cherries, Peaches, Plums
Cooking Vegetables:
Squash, Summer, Squash, Winter
Salad Vegetables:
Tomatoes
Rose's Berry Farm LLC
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper
Location HQ:
South Glastonbury, 06073
Connecticut
Berries:
Strawberries
Deciduous Fruit:
Apples, Pears
Cooking Vegetables:
Potatoes, Pumpkins, Squash, Summer, Squash, Winter, Green Beans
Salad Vegetables:
Lettuce, Tomatoes
Holmberg Orchard Inc
Overview
(1)
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Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper
Location HQ:
Gales Ferry, 06335
Connecticut
Deciduous Fruit:
Apples, Pears
Melons:
Cantaloupe
Stone Fruit:
Nectarines, Peaches, Plums
Salad Vegetables:
Peppers, Bell
Cooking Vegetables:
Pumpkins, Squash, Summer, Squash, Winter
Glendale Farms
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper,
Retailer
Location HQ:
Milford, 06461
Connecticut
Cooking Vegetables:
Pumpkins
Bernards Farm
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper
Location HQ:
Mcminnville, 97128
Oregon
Berries:
Strawberries
Deciduous Fruit:
Apples, Pears
Melons:
Cantaloupe, Watermelon
Cooking Vegetables:
Corn, Onions, Bulb
Salad Vegetables:
Peppers, Bell, Carrots, Tomatoes
New Mexico Department of Agriculture
Overview
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Business Type:
Government & Education
Location HQ:
Las Cruces, 88003
New Mexico
Melons:
Watermelon
Cooking Vegetables:
Onions, Bulb, Peppers, Chili, Potatoes, Pumpkins
Salad Vegetables:
Peppers, Bell, Lettuce
Specialties:
Pinto Beans (Dried)
Gerald Detering Co
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper,
Retailer
Location HQ:
Harrisburg, 97446
Oregon
Berries:
Strawberries
Deciduous Fruit:
Apples, Pears
Stone Fruit:
Cherries, Nectarines, Peaches, Plums
Cooking Vegetables:
Cabbage, Corn
Salad Vegetables:
Peppers, Bell
