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The California Rare Fruit Growers, Inc. (CRFG) is a non-profit organization of rare exotic fruit enthusiasts, hobbyists and amateur horticulturists based in California. The CRFG, founded in 1968, promotes rare fruits in the Southern California marketplace, according to a 1997 article in the Seasonal Chef online newsletter. [ 1 ]
Tahoma (formerly Chambers Lodge) [3] is a census-designated place [1] in Placer and El Dorado counties, California, United States. Tahoma is located along Lake Tahoe 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of Homewood. [3] Tahoma has a population of 1,191 (780 in El Dorado County and 411 in Placer County). Tahoma has a post office with ZIP code 96142, which ...
Sunsweet Growers Incorporated is an American agricultural marketing cooperative founded in 1917 as the California Prune and Apricot Growers Association. Sunsweet is headquartered in Yuba City, California , USA.
Sunkist Growers, Incorporated, branded as Sunkist, is an American citrus growers' non-stock membership cooperative composed of over 1,000 members from California and Arizona headquartered in Valencia, California. [1] Through 31 offices in the United States and Canada and four offices outside North America, its sales in 1991 totaled $956 million.
In 1915, the brand name Sun-Maid, coined by advertising executive E.A. Berg, was launched; and in 1918 the company opened a new facility near downtown Fresno, California. By the early 1920s, the California Associated Raisin Company’s membership comprised 85 percent of the state’s raisin growers.
Di Giorgio corporation was a fruit-growing corporation and eventual conglomerate in the 20th century. Once a vast company, owning much of California's central valley farm land, and multibillion-dollar corporation, a massive restructuring in the 1990s limited its breadth.
Stemilt Growers, owned by the Mathison family, is a family-owned tree fruit growing, packing and shipping company based in Wenatchee, Washington. Stemilt is the largest fresh market sweet cherry shipper in the world, [ 1 ] and one of the nation's largest grower-packer-shippers of apples , pears , cherries, and stone fruit .
TheSugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida dates began in the 1950s when 16 farmers met to discuss joining together with other farmers in the Glades Area, west of West Palm Beach, Florida, and southeast of Lake Okeechobee, to form a farming cooperative. In July 1960, 54 farmer-members chartered Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida.