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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Stonecipher Farm
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Bowdoinham, 04008-5613
Maine
Cooking Vegetables:
Artichokes, Beans, Beets, Brussels Sprouts, Cauliflower, Celery Root, Eggplant, Garlic, Greens, Herbs
River Rise Farm
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Turner, 04282-3263
Maine
Cooking Vegetables:
Artichokes, Asparagus, Beans, Beets, Brussels Sprouts, Cabbage, Celery Root, Eggplant, Garlic, Herbs
One Drop Farm
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Skowhegan, 04976-6355
Maine
Deciduous Fruit:
Apples
Cooking Vegetables:
Beans, Brussels Sprouts, Cabbage, Garlic, Herbs, Kale, Onions, Bulb, Parsnips
Salad Vegetables:
Peppers, Bell
Checkerberry Farm
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Guilford, 04443-3239
Maine
Deciduous Fruit:
Apples, Pears
Stone Fruit:
Plums
Cooking Vegetables:
Beans, Beets, Brussels Sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Celery Root, Eggplant
Winterberry Farm
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Belgrade, 04917-4135
Maine
Deciduous Fruit:
Apples, Pears
Stone Fruit:
Peaches
Cooking Vegetables:
Beans, Beets, Brussels Sprouts, Cabbage, Cauliflower, Celery Root, Eggplant
Sparrow Farm
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Gardiner, 04345-6617
Maine
Deciduous Fruit:
Apples
Stone Fruit:
Cherries
Cooking Vegetables:
Beans, Beets, Eggplant, Garlic, Herbs, Kale, Leeks, Onions, Bulb
Nettie Fox Farm
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower
Location HQ:
Hampden, 04444-5105
Maine
Cooking Vegetables:
Beets, Cabbage, Celery Root, Eggplant, Garlic, Herbs, Kale, Leeks, Onions, Bulb, Parsnips
Morgan Orchard
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper
Location HQ:
Sinks Grove , 24976
West Virginia
Deciduous Fruit:
Apples, Grapes
Stone Fruit:
Apricots, Nectarines, Peaches, Plums
Cooking Vegetables:
Corn, Potatoes, Pumpkins, Squash, Summer
Hi Ja Farms
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower,
Shipper
Location HQ:
Ridgeley , 26753
West Virginia
Melons:
Watermelon
Cooking Vegetables:
Cabbage, Cauliflower, Corn, Onions, Bulb, Potatoes, Pumpkins, Squash, Summer, Squash, Winter
Salad Vegetables:
Peppers, Bell
Walnut Hill Orchard
Overview
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Business Type:
Grower,
Retailer
Location HQ:
Charles Town, 25414
West Virginia
Berries:
Blueberries, Strawberries
Cooking Vegetables:
Kale, Potatoes, Pumpkins
Salad Vegetables:
Peppers, Bell, Cucumbers, Lettuce, Tomatoes, Tomatoes
