Specialty Produce is a family owned and operated food service and retail fresh produce and grocery supplier located in San Diego, CA. A premium provider for more than thirty years, Specialty Produce continues to be a leader in service, product quality and technology.
What We Do:
Our centrally located warehouse allows us to service customers throughout the greater San Diego area.
Our online system is available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week for research, menu planning, and order placing.
Our customer service system continuously receives specific customer orders, inventory, marketing information, and pricing and will immediately notify our sales team and drivers using wireless technology.
Our hard-working team provides delivery 7 days a week, with same-day delivery available before 2pm.
This competitive advantage has made Specialty Produce a leader in service and dependability.
Specialty Produce is an organic (CCOF) & food safety (HACCP) certified facility. Food safety is our focus and is paramount in our daily operations, administered by a full-time food safety manager.
Our 50,000 sqft warehouse facility is open to the public 7 days a week from 8am to 5pm for will call order pick up and shopping. No account is required to shop at the Specialty Produce warehouse.
Our Farmers’ Market Cooler features locally-sourced seasonal fruits and vegetables from over 50 farms, annually. Seasonal items can vary weekly and are sourced from San Diego farms and the Santa Monica Farmers Market.
Explore our Fruit and Vegetable Museum to learn more about the wide variety of produce we have researched while exploring markets around the world.
Group tours of the Fruit and Vegetable Museum, farmers’ market cooler, and warehouse are also available. To book a tour, please email [email protected].
Our Strategy
The Specialty Produce Strategy is to convert all communications (i.e. the internal work environment, vendors, and customers) from analog (voice and paper) to synchronized digital communications and systems. The goal is to improve and enhance our effectiveness by eliminating time and space.
Our Philosophy
Specialty Produce strives to:
Build long-term relationships with our valued customers, employees, suppliers, associates, and our community.
Listen and respond to our customers' needs whether simple or complex.
Understand, anticipate and be flexible in order to provide quality products and high customer satisfaction.
Maintain a comprehensive, convenient, & user-friendly online presence; both for the casual visitor and our customers who want to leverage our system to their advantage.
Our aim is consistent and courteous excellence in service.
Our Community
Specialty Produce is proud to work with several non-profit organizations within the community, including:
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3/8/20 Episode 118
Food Fable: Red Bananas
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. More...This Food Fable shares a legend from Malaysia that tells how red bananas came to be, and why some cultures choose not to eat these sacred fruits. Craving more? Go back to Episode 76 for the Food Fable on yellow bananas!
2/21/20 Episode 117
Food Buzz: History of Red Bananas
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
2/7/20 Episode 116
Food Fable: Passion Fruit
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. More...This Food Fable shares an original fiction story, creating an origin for folklore that claims eating a passion fruit will cause one to fall in love with the next person they lay eyes on.
1/20/20 Episode 115
Food Buzz: History of Passion Fruit
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
1/10/20 Episode 114
Food Fable: Peppermint
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. More...This Food Fable shares a legend of how peppermint candy canes were invented by a German choirmaster who needed to keep his choir kids quiet during a Christmas ceremony.
12/9/19 Episode 113
Food Buzz: History of Peppermint
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
11/29/19 Episode 112
Food Fable: Sweet Potato
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. More...This Food Fable shares an African folktale that is based off of Aesop’s Fable, The Tortoise and the Hare.
11/15/19 Episode 111
Food Buzz: History of Sweet Potato
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
11/1/19 Episode 110
Food Fable: Amaranth
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. More...This Food Fable shares the history of Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), as well as a story inspired by the yearly celebration.
10/18/19 Episode 109
Food Buzz: History of Amaranth
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
9/30/19 Episode 108
Food Fable: Kale
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history.
9/20/19 Episode 107
Food Buzz: History of Kale
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
8/26/19 Episode 106
Food Fable: Snake Fruit
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable ties together the meaning behind Snake Fruit’s nickname, Fruit of Memory, and its proper name, Salak, which it shares with a legendary haunted mountain in West Java: Mount Salak.
8/21/19 Episode 105
Food Buzz: History of Snake Fruit
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
8/12/19 Episode 104
Food Fable: Mangosteen
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable tells a legend of Queen Victoria and the fabled extent of her desire for fresh mangosteen.
8/5/19 Episode 103
Food Buzz: History of Mangosteen
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
7/23/19 Episode 102
Food Fable: Apricots
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable explores the apricot’s cultural importance around the world, and also tells a story from Greek mythology about the hero, Hercules, and his mission to steal the golden fruit of Hesperides.
7/14/19 Episode 101
Food Buzz: History of Apricots
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
6/14/19 Episode 100
Food Fable: Century Plant
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. More...This Food Fable tells a legend from Aztec mythology about how the agave plant came to be.
6/7/19 Episode 99
Food Buzz: History of Century Plant
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
5/24/19 Episode 98
Food Fable: Kiwi
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. More...This Food Fable tells the story of the kiwi bird from Maori tradition, and shows how the bird came to share its name with the kiwi fruit.
5/10/19 Episode 97
Food Buzz: History of Kiwi
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
5/3/19 Episode 96
Food Fable: Rhubarb
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. More...This Food Fable tells the story of an ancient Persian creation myth about how humans were born from a rhubarb plant.
4/19/19 Episode 95
Food Buzz: History of Rhubarb
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
4/16/19 Episode 94
Food Fable: Papaya
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. More...This Food Fable tells a tale from Filipino folklore of how the papaya tree came to be.
4/5/19 Episode 93
Food Buzz: History of Papaya
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
3/22/19 Episode 92
Food Fable: Mint
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. More...This Food Fable tells a legend from Greek mythology about how mint got its name and signature smell.
3/15/19 Episode 91
Food Buzz: History of Mint
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
3/11/19 Episode 90
Food Fable: Beets
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. More...This Food Fable tells a legend from Norse mythology about how the beetroot got its blood-red color.
3/4/19 Episode 89
Food Buzz: History of Beets
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
2/22/19 Episode 88
Food Fable: Dates
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. More...This Food Fable shares several examples of the date’s significance in Middle Eastern culture, and tells a legend frorth Africa about one of the most popular date varieties, the Deglet Noor, which translates from Arabic as the “Date of Lightâ€.
2/18/19 Episode 87
Food Buzz: History of Dates
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
2/12/19 Episode 86
Food Fable: Cauliflower
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. More...This Food Fable tells the story of cauliflower’s transformation over history as it evolved from the wild cabbage plant.
1/31/19 Episode 85
Food Buzz: History of Cauliflower
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
1/25/19 Episode 84
Food Fable: Lychee
Plated Earth Food Fables are short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and history. More...This Food Fable tells the legendary love story of Emperor Xuanzong and Yang Guifei from the Tang Dynasty of ancient Ch and shows how Yang’s love for lychee fruit may have led to the Emperor’s own downfall.
1/18/19 Episode 83
Food Buzz: History of Lychee
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
12/17/18 Episode 82
Food Fable: Oranges
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable tells the story of Saint Nicholas, before he became known as Santa Claus, and how his generosity sparked the tradition of leaving oranges in stockings on Christmas Eve.
12/11/18 Episode 81
Food Buzz: History of Oranges
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
12/6/18 Episode 80
Food Fable: Basil
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable tells of many myths of basil from around the world, notably the legend in Christian tradition of Saint Helena, who was led to an epic discovery on her pilgrimage in Jerusalem thanks to basil plants.
11/26/18 Episode 79
Food Buzz: History of Basil
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
11/20/18 Episode 78
Food Fable: Potatoes
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable is a retelling of a legend from Bolivia about how potatoes came to be.
11/13/18 Episode 77
Food Buzz: History of Potatoes
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
11/5/18 Episode 76
Food Fable: Bananas
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable is a retelling of a myth from the Philippines that explains how the banana tree came to be. It also highlights several other folk tales and superstitions associated with the fruit from around the world.
10/31/18 Episode 75
Food Buzz: History of Bananas
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
10/22/18 Episode 74
Food Fable: Mushrooms
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable tells of a few legends surrounding mushrooms and their sometimes curious, circular growth pattern, known in many myths as a fairy ring.
10/8/18 Episode 73
Food Buzz: History of Mushrooms
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
10/1/18 Episode 72
Food Fable: Medlar
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable is about a young boy, teasingly nicknamed “Willy Rotten†by his peers, whose father comforhim by telling the story of how giants once roamed the earth, thanks to the medlar fruit. The giants’ origin story is inspired by the works of 16th century author, François Rabelais, which chronicle the adventures of two giants, Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
9/24/18 Episode 71
Food Buzz: History of Medlar
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
9/17/18 Episode 70
Food Fable: Pears
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable is a retelling of a tale from China about a greedy pear farmer who encounters a monk with a magical pear tree.
9/11/18 Episode 69
Food Buzz: History of Pears
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
9/3/18 Episode 68
Food Fable: Elderberries
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable is an adaptation from an 1845 fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen, “The Little Elder Tree Mherâ€, and it tells the tale of a little boy who discovers the magical powers of the elderberry tree.
8/27/18 Episode 67
Food Buzz: History of Elderberries
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
8/21/18 Episode 66
Food Fable: Guavas
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable is a retelling of a legend from the Philippines that explains how the guava got its name and its crown from a selfish, cruel King who was cursed for his wrongdoings.
8/13/18 Episode 65
Food Buzz: History of Guavas
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
8/7/18 Episode 64
Food Fable: Mulberries
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable is a retelling of a tragic love story about two young Babylonian lovers who are forbidden to marry, so they arrange to meet below a mulberry tree, and their tale tells tells how the mulberry fruit came to be red-purple in color. The original story was related by Roman poet, Ovid, in his work, Metamorphoses, and was famously parodied in an act of Shakes
7/31/18 Episode 63
Food Buzz: History of Mulberries
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
7/23/18 Episode 62
Food Fable: Plums
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable is a retelling of a story from ancient China about a warlord named Cao Cao, whose clever strate to motivate his army led to the Chinese idiom, "quenching the thirst by thinking of plumsâ€.
7/16/18 Episode 61
Food Buzz: History of Plums
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
7/10/18 Episode 60
Food Fable: Watermelon
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable is a retelling of a Vietnamese folk tale that takes place in ancient Vietnam during the time of the Hung Kings, and explains how watermelons came to be a common crop in the country thanks to a young Prince who was exiled to a desolate island by the King.
7/2/18 Episode 59
Food Buzz: History of Watermelon
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
6/11/18 Episode 58
Food Fable: Coffee Cherries
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable recounts an ancient Ethiopian legend about a goat herder named Kaldi, who first discovered coffee cherries and their energizing power.
6/4/18 Episode 57
Food Buzz: History of Coffee Cherries
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
5/28/18 Episode 56
Food Fable: Mangoes
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable shares several examples of the mango’s role in folklore and theology in both India and the Philippines, focusing on the legend of Surya Bai, daughter of the sun, which tells how the mango originated as a symbol of undying love.
5/21/18 Episode 55
Food Buzz: History of Mangoes
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
5/14/18 Episode 54
Food Fable: Durian
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable is a retelling of a legend from the Philippines, and explains how the Durian fruit wasn’t alws so smelly – it was a love potion gone wrong!
5/7/18 Episode 53
Food Buzz: History of Durian
he Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
1/30/18 Episode 52
Food Fable: Pineapples
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable is a retelling of the legend of the pineapple that originated in the Philippines, and explains how pineapples came to be.
4/23/18 Episode 51
Food Buzz: History of Pineapples
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
4/16/18 Episode 50
Food Fable: Dragon Fruit
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable tells the story of how Dragon Fruit originated thousands of years ago from fire-breathing creatures, and hence got its name.
4/6/18 Episode 49
Food Buzz: History of Dragon Fruit
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
4/2/18 Episode 48
Food Talk: California Citrus
The Food Talk is a special edition episode featuring one or more guests who discuss their experience and connection with More...produce. This Food Talk episode features Produce Buyer, Forager and Ambassador, Nathan Bochler, who talks about his experiences with citrus in the California market, and discusses the process of discovering new produce items for Specialty Produce.
3/26/18 Episode 47
Food Fable: Sharon Fruit
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable tells the story of a family of farmers in Israel who bring the Sharon Fruit to South Africa, boting the fruit’s presence in the global market, and bringing hope and opportunity to the local community.
3/19/18 Episode 46
Food Buzz: History of Sharon Fruit
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
3/12/18 Episode 45
Food Fable: Cabbage
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable tells the story of the cabbage’s role throughout several cultures, and relays an old English tale about how babies come from cabbage patches.
3/5/18 Episode 44
Food Buzz: History of Cabbage
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
2/26/18 Episode 43
Food Fable: Breadfruit
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable is a retelling of an ancient Hawaiian myth about the creation of breadfruit thanks to Ku, the war god who saved his family in a time of famine.
2/19/18 Episode 42
Food Buzz: Histoy of Breadfruit
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
2/12/18 Episode 41
Food Fable: Grapefruits
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable tells the story of the grapefruit’s mistaken identity as a pomelo, and how the confusion may ve started with the man who first brought pomelo seeds to Barbados, Captain Shaddock – or was it Chaddock?
2/5/18 Episode 40
Food Buzz: History of Grapefruits
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
1/29/18 Episode 39
Food Fable: Lemons
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable tells the story of how lemons helped to defeat Napoleon through the eradication of scurvy in the 18th century.
1/22/18 Episode 38
Food Buzz: History of Lemons
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
1/15/18 Episode 37
Food Fable: Grapes
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable tells the story of a little girl from Madrid, and her New Year’s Eve adventure with her grather to find 12 grapes for the midnight tradition. The grandmother’s retelling of Aesop’s Fable, The Fox and The Grapes, within this Food Fable was adapted from: http://read.gov/aesop/005.html.
1/8/18 Episode 36
Food Buzz: History of Grapes
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
12/29/17 Episode 35
Food Talk: Apples
The Food Talk is a special edition episode featuring one or more guests who discuss their experience and connection with More...produce. This Food Talk episode features Kelly Haag and Cassandra Poindexter of Specialty Produce, who talk about their recent trip to England in search of both new and old apple varieties, and discuss the nuances that go into researching produce items for the Specialty Produce App.
12/11/17 Episode 34
Food Fable: Pomegranates
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable is a retelling of an ancient Greek myth that explains why the pomegranate is harvested in winte and how the fruit is responsible for the earth’s four seasons. The pomegranate features prominently in this story of Persephone, daughter of the goddess of harvest, and her marriage to Hades, the god of the underworld.
12/4/17 Episode 33
Food Buzz: History of Pomegranates
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
11/27/17 Episode 32
Food Fable: Cranberries
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable tells the story of a young boy working on a cranberry farm with his grandfather. Each night leang up to Thanksgiving, after harvesting and selling the cranberries at the local farmers markets, the boy listens his grandfather’s retelling of an ancient Native American legend on how cranberries came to be on Earth.
11/20/17 Episode 31
Food Buzz: History of Cranberries
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
11/13/17 Episode 30
Food Fable: Pumpkins
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable tells the story of Stingy Jack, the man from Irish folklore who started the tradition of carving Jack-O-Lanterns. Featuring special guest reader, Rick North.
11/6/17 Episode 29
Food Buzz: History of Pumpkins
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
10/30/17 Episode 28
Food Fable: Coconuts, Part 2
Halloween Special Part 2: Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to More...connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the conclusion of Episode 27 – Food Fable: Coconuts.
10/23/17 Episode 27
Food Fable: Coconuts
Halloween Special Part 1: Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to More...connect people, culture, and history. This Food Fable tells the story of three young boys who, after hearing a local legend about the coconut grove in their hometown in Hawaii, venture out into the dark of Halloween night, tracking down the haunted coconut palms. They soon find themselves above their heads in danger, and will have to rely on the legend in order to dig their way o
10/16/17 Episode 26
Food Buzz: History of Coconuts
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10/2/17 Episode 25
Food Fable: Apples
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
10/2/17 Episode 24
Food Buzz: History of Apples
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
9/25/17 Episode 23
Food Fable: Artichokes
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable tells the story of a young gangster working for Ciro “Artichoke King†Terranova, a mobster in the Morello crime family who was known for his monopoly of the artichoke market in New York in the 1920s and early 1930s.
9/18/17 Episode 22
Food Buzz: History of Artichokes
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
9/11/17 Episode 21
Food Fable: Tomatoes, Part 2
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable tells the story of a young boy who is raised on Campbell’s tomato soup and his mother’s tal of the tomato’s role in witchcraft and revolutions. This young boy grows up to be a Pop Art icon, and one of his most-recognized works reflects his tomato-filled upbringing.
9/4/17 Episode 20
Food Buzz: History of Tomatoes, Part 2
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
8/28/17 Episode 19
Food Fable: Tomatoes, Part 1
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable tells the story of a detective and his bumbling associate, who are called to investigate suspicus poisonings at an upper-class home in the English countryside in the early 17th century. Through his intuitive investigatory skills, the detective comes to find that the poisonings do not lead him to interrogate someone, but rather some thing – the tomato
8/21/17 Episode 18
Food Buzz: History of Tomatoes, Part 1
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
8/11/17 Episode 17
Food Fable: Strawberries
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable tells the story of a French spy who traveled to Chile in the 1700s on an expedition entrusted thim by Louis XIV. By his own account, we hear how and why this French spy came across the Chilean strawberry, which he brought home to France, opening the door for the cross between Chilean and Virginia cultivars – the ancestors of our modern-day beloved st
8/7/17 Episode 16
Food Buzz: History of Strawberries
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
7/31/17 Episode 15
Food Fable: Figs
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable tells the story of a mystical fig tree that is not bound by time or space. The tree itself recounts its memories of visitors who came and went beneath its branches throughout time and across cultures, from Adam and Eve, to Buddha, to Romulus and Remus, and more.
7/24/17 Episode 14
Food Buzz: History of Figs
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
7/17/17 Episode 13
Food Fable: Cherries
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable tells the story of an old Samurai who suffers tragic loss, but finds solace in his ancestors’ cherry tree, which is growing in his yard. It is a re-telling of a well known Japanese ghost story, Cherry Tree of the Sixteenth Day.
7/7/17 Episode 12
Food Buzz: History of Cherries
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
7/3/17 Episode 11
Food Fable: Monticello
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable tells of Thomas Jefferson’s passion for the gardens of Monticello through his own written This letter, addressed to Monticello itself, recounts Jefferson’s memories of the garden’s history, evolution, and future aspirations, and confesses some of Jefferson’s favorite produce items amongst the vast varieties.
6/26/17 Episode 10
Food Buzz: History of Monticello
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration. This week’s Food Buzz More...is in honor of the upcoming 4th of July holiday!
6/19/17 Episode 9
Food Fable: Asparagus
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable tells the story of a chef who meets an intriguing, story-telling stewardess named Misty on ng flight from London to Los Angeles. Misty divulges the history of her former babysitter and first woman stewardess in history – Ellen Church – and how she’s been able to maintain a connection with Ellen through their hometown favorite vegetable: asparagus
6/11/17 Episode 8
Food Buzz: History of Asparagus
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration
5/22/17 Episode 5
Food Fable: Pomelo
Plated Earth Food Fables are original short historical fiction stories about produce and its ability to connect people, culture, and More...history. This Food Fable tells of the pomelo’s value in Chinese culture as a symbol of good luck, prosperity, and unity. It follows a Young Man’s journey around the world, from Malaysia to China, Israel, Greece and more, as he seeks to find his love, Clementine. With a little bit of luck – and a pair of pomelos – he just might find her.
5/16/17 Episode 4
Food Buzz: History of Pomelo
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
5/8/17 Episode 3
Food Fable: Citrus Little Brother
This Food Fable is set in 1849, during the gold rush in California. We meet Little Brother, who is on More...a mission to save his gold-mining Big Brother from Death. Big Brother is suffering from scurvy, and rumors lead Little Brother to believe that a cure c be found in a different kind of gold – citrus.
5/1/17 Episode 2
Food Buzz: History of California Citrus
The Food Buzz highlights specific produce facts and history to help guide future produce exploration.
4/24/17 Episode 1
Introduction to Plated Earth
Meet the Plated Earth hosts, story-tellers, teachers and producers: JJ, Chris, and Kelly. Chris and JJ, the brains behind More...Plated Earth, interview their producer, Kelly, about why the Specialty Produce App is such an essential piece of history and modern day produce knowledge. Kelly flips the interview to give you a better look into who Chris and JJ are, and their produce mission.
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Specialty Produce (the "Company") has developed this Privacy Policy out
of respect for the privacy of our customers and visitors to our Website.
This policy describes the personal information we collect, use, and
disclose about individual consumers and website visitors who are
California residents. This policy applies only to California residents
who are natural persons; it does not apply to any entities (whether
business, non-profit or governmental) or to any person who is not a
California resident.
Whenever you visit our website, we will collect some information from
you automatically simply by you visiting and navigating through this
site, and some voluntarily when you submit information using a form on
the website, request information, or use any of the other interactive
portions of our Web site. Through this website, we will collect
information that can identify you and/or your activity. And whenever
you communicate, interact or do business with us, whether online or at
any Company locations or stores, we will be collecting personal
information from you or about you in the course of our interaction or
dealings with you.
Specialty Produce may collect the following categories of personal
information about you based on your specific transactions and
interactions with the Company or its website.
For each category of information, we identify examples of the category,
the business purposes for which we use the information in that category,
the categories of sources from which the information is collected, and
the categories of third parties with whom we have shared the information
in the last 12 months.
Category of Personal Information
Personal Identifiers & Contact
Information
Examples
Name, alias, mailing address, email address, phone number, account
username and password, social media handles and personal webpages
Business Purpose(s) for Which
Information is Used
Processing, completing, and maintaining records regarding your
orders
Responding to inquiries through Website
Monitoring customer satisfaction and feedback
Verifying and responding to consumer requests
Categories of Sources from Which
Information Received
From you the consumer, visitors of our Website
Categories of Third Parties to Whom Info
was Disclosed in Last 12 Months
We do not share this information with any third party, unless
required to do so by law or government agency or for the purpose of
defending or prosecuting legal claims
Category of Personal Information
Internet Activity
Examples
Date and time of your visit to this Website; webpages visited;
links clicked on the Website; browser ID; browser type; device ID;
operating system; form information downloaded; domain name from which
our site was accessed; and cookies
Business Purpose(s) for Which
Information is Used
Improving the Website experience for all visitors
Understanding the demographics of our Website visitors
Operating and maintaining the Website
Detecting security incidents
Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing
intended functionality of the Website
Protecting against malicious or illegal activity and prosecuting
those responsible
Verifying and responding to consumer requests
Categories of Sources from Which
Information Received
Visitors of our Website and the device and browser used to access
the Website
Categories of Third Parties to Whom Info
was Disclosed in Last 12 Months
We do not share this information with any third party, unless
required to do so by law or government agency or for the purpose of
defending or prosecuting legal claims
Category of Personal Information
Geolocation Data
Examples
IP Address
Business Purpose(s) for Which
Information is Used
Improving the Website experience for all visitors
Understanding the demographics of our Website visitors
Detecting security incidents
Debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing
intended functionality of the Website
Protecting against malicious or illegal activity and prosecuting
those responsible
Verifying and responding to consumer requests
Categories of Sources from Which
Information Received
Visitors of our Website and the device and browser used to access
the Website
Categories of Third Parties to Whom Info
was Disclosed in Last 12 Months
We do not share this information with any third party, unless
required to do so by law or government agency or for the purpose of
defending or prosecuting legal claims
Category of Personal Information
Commercial Transaction Data
Examples
Records of purchasing history; financial transactions
Business Purpose(s) for Which
Information is Used
Processing, completing, and maintaining records regarding your
orders
Communicating with you regarding your orders
Verifying and responding to consumer requests
Categories of Sources from Which
Information Received
From you the consumer
Categories of Third Parties to Whom Info
was Disclosed in Last 12 Months
Promotional or other fulfillment vendors
Transaction support vendors (e.g., payment processors)
Category of Personal Information
Biometric Data
Examples
Voice recordings of customer calls for training or quality
assurance purposes; surveillance footage of Company property
Business Purpose(s) for Which
Information is Used
To respond to consumer inquiries, including requests for
information and in-store inquiries
To detect security incidents
To protect against malicious or illegal activity and prosecute
those responsible
Categories of Sources from Which
Information Received
From you the consumer; through our observation
Categories of Third Parties to Whom Info
was Disclosed in Last 12 Months
We do not share this information with any third party, unless
required to do so by law or government agency or for the purpose of
defending or prosecuting legal claims
Do we sell any of your personal information?
The Company does
NOT
and will not sell your personal information, including the data of any
minors. We do not sell or otherwise trade the personal information that
we collect from our site visitors at any point or under any
circumstance.
Third-party vendors
The Company may use other companies and individuals to perform certain
functions on our behalf. Examples include administering e-mail services
and running special promotions. Such parties only have access to the
personal information needed to perform these functions and may not use
or store the information for any other purpose. Subscribers or site
visitors will never receive unsolicited e-mail messages from vendors
working on our behalf.
Business transfers
In the event the Company sells or transfers a particular portion of its
business assets, consumer information may be one of the business assets
transferred as part of the transaction. If substantially all of the
assets of the Company are acquired, consumer information may be
transferred as part of the acquisition.
Compliance with law/safety
The Company may disclose specific personal information based on a good
faith belief that such disclosure is necessary to comply with or conform
to the law or that such disclosure is necessary to protect the users of
our Website, the site itself, or the public.
Use of cookies and other tracking technologies
Cookies are small files that a Website may transfer to a user’s computer
that reside there for either the duration of the browsing session
(session cookies) or on a permanent (until deleted) basis (persistent
cookies) that may be used to identify a user, a user’s machine, or a
user’s behavior. We make use of cookies under the following
circumstances and for the following reasons:
Compile data about site traffic to offer a better Website
experience
Understand and save visitor preferences for future visits
Do Not Track (DNT) is a privacy preference that users can set if they do
not want web services to collect information about their online
activity. However, there is currently no universal standard for sending
and receiving DNT signals. Due to this lack of universal standard, it
would be impossible for us to promise that we comply with all known and
unknown DNT standards.
Therefore, we do not respond to DNT signals or other mechanisms that
provide a choice regarding the collection of personal information about
activities over time and across different Web sites or online services.
If a universal standard for DNT becomes available, we may revisit our
DNT Policy.
External links
Our website contain links to other sites. The Company is not responsible
for the privacy practices or the content of such websites. To help
ensure the protection of your privacy, we recommend that you review the
privacy policy of any site you visit via a link from our website.
Children under the age of 16
Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one
under age 16 may provide any personal information on the Website. We do
not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If
you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on our Website.
If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a
child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete
that information. If you believe we might have any information from or
about a child under 16, please contact us at the email address below.
Your Rights as a California Consumer
If you are a California resident, you have the following rights:
Right to Know. The
right to request, up to 2 times in a 12-month period, that we identify
to you (1) the categories of personal information we have collected,
disclosed or sold about you in the last 12 months, (2) the categories
of sources from which the personal information was collected, (3) the
business purpose for which we use this information, and (4) the
categories of third parties with whom we share or have shared your
personal information in the last 12 months
Right to Access.
The right to request, up to 2 times in a 12-month period, that we
provide you access to or disclose to you, free of charge, the specific
pieces of personal information we have collected about you in the last
12 months
Right to Delete.
The right to request, up to 2 times in a 12-month period, that we
delete personal information that we collected from you, subject to
certain exceptions
Right to Opt-Out.
The right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information to third
parties
The right to designate an authorized agent to submit one of the
above requests on your behalf
The right to not be discriminated against in receiving different or
less favorable pricing, service or financial incentive for exercising
any of the above rights
You can submit any of the above 4 types of consumer
requests by any of the 2 options below
Submit an online request on our website at
Call our privacy toll-free line at (877) 331-2897
How we will verify that it is really you submitting
the request
When you submit a Right to Know, Right to Access, or Right to Delete
consumer request through one of the methods provided above, we will ask
you to provide some information in order to verify your identity and
respond to your request. Specifically, we will ask you to verify
information that can be used to link your identity to particular records
in our possession, which depends on the nature of your relationship and
interaction with us. For example, we may need you to provide your name,
address, email, phone number, last 4 digits of your SSN and your date of
birth. In addition, our third-party identity verification provider will
require your authorization to access your credit report. If your sole
interaction with us was as a website visitor, then in order to verify
your identify, we will need to ask you to provide your name, email,
phone number, IP address, device ID, browser ID, and/or cookie ID.
Responding to your Right to Know, Right to Access,
and Right to Delete requests
We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within
forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 45
days or 90 days total from the date we receive your request), we will
inform you of the reason and extension period in writing. We will
deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.
Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding
our receipt of your verifiable consumer request. The response we provide
will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if
applicable. We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your
verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or
manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee,
we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost
estimate before completing your request.
Responding to your consumer request to opt-out of
the sale of your personal information
We will act upon a verifiable consumer request to opt-out within fifteen
(15) days of its receipt. We will notify all third parties to whom we
have sold personal information within 90 days of our receipt of your
request that you have exercised your right to opt-out and instruct them
not to further sell the information. We will notify you when this has
been completed by mail or electronically, at your option.
A request to opt-out need not be a verifiable consumer request. However,
we may deny a request to opt-out if we have a good faith, reasonable,
and documented belief that a request to opt-out is fraudulent. If we
deny your request to opt-out, we shall inform you of our decision not to
comply and provide an explanation as to why we believe the request is
fraudulent.
How to authorize an agent to act on your behalf
You can authorize someone else as an Authorized Agent who can submit a
consumer request on your behalf. To do so, you must either (a) execute a
valid, verifiable, and notarized Power of Attorney or (b) provide other
written authorization that we can then verify. When we receive a
consumer request submitted on your behalf by an Authorized Agent, that
person will be asked to provide written proof that they have your
permission to act on your behalf, and we will also contact you and ask
you for information to verify your own identity directly with us and not
through your Authorized Agent.
Severability
If any provision of this Privacy Policy is held by a court or other
tribunal of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal or
unenforceable for any reason, such provision shall be eliminated or
limited to the minimum extent such that the remaining provisions of the
Privacy Policy will continue in full force and effect.
Consent to Terms and Conditions
By using this Website, you consent to all Terms and Conditions expressed
in this Privacy Policy.
Changes
From time to time we may modify and/or update this Privacy Policy and so
we encourage you to check back on a regular basis to determine if any
changes have been made.
Questions About the Policy
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, go to our
, call (877) 331-2897, or email .