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The following is a partial list of strawberry cultivars. Strawberries come in a wide assortment of commercially available cultivars (cultivated varieties). Differences between cultivars may include the date the fruit ripens, disease resistance, freezing quality, firmness, berry size, berry shape, and flavor.
Freight Farms is a Boston-based agriculture technology company and was the first to manufacture and sell "container farms": hydroponic farming systems retrofitted inside intermodal freight containers. Freight Farms also develops farmhand, a hydroponic farm management and automation software platform, and the largest connected network of ...
C&S Wholesale Grocers, LLC is a national wholesale grocery supply company in the United States, based in Keene, New Hampshire. In 2021 it was the eighth-largest privately held company in the United States , as listed by Forbes . [ 3 ]
The variety was known to withstand shipping and also fruited into late summer. The late harvest allowed Driscoll's to ship strawberries to retailers when other growers had none. [2] The berry was developed over a 10-year period and not released until 1957. [1] In 1966, the merger of Strawberry Institute and Driscoll Strawberry Associates was ...
BrightFarms was founded by Ted Caplow and Paul Lightfoot in 2010. [1] [3]As of 2019, BrightFarms had four greenhouses located in Wilmington, Ohio; Rochelle, Illinois; Culpeper County, Virginia; and Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
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Strawberries were eaten fresh with cream in the time of Thomas Wolsey in the court of King Henry VIII. [61] Strawberries can be frozen or made into jam or preserves, [62] as well as dried and used in prepared foods, such as cereal bars. [63] In the United Kingdom, strawberries and cream is a popular dessert at the Wimbledon tennis tournament. [61]
The most commonly consumed strawberry species in modern times is the garden strawberry, a species derived from hybridization of two other species, with the scientific name Fragaria × ananassa, [1] but there are many species of strawberries, several others of which are cultivated to some extent. The strawberry species fall into several ...