Hollandia Produce

The Squircle by Live Gourmet
What do you get when you combine a square and a circle? A squircle! And for Hollandia Produce, it means a new and improved clamshell! Please read more here: http://blog.livegourmet.com/2011/06/squircle-of-life-by-live-gourmet.html The Live Gourmet Living Butter Lettuce Squircle clamshell is designed to allow the same room for the lettuce leaves while reducing the area that contains the root ball. The Squircle is designed to eliminate un-used space in its shipping carton, allowing for a 20 percent increase in sellable units per pallet. In addition, the new design reduces the amount of plastic used, resulting in a 15 percent saving per clamshell.

Fresh Arugula Hydroponically Grown by Hollandia Produce
The owner of Hollandia Produce talks about the world's freshest arugula, hydroponically grown in Carpinteria, CA. http://www.livegourmet.com/arugula.html Arugula, also known as rocket or rucola, is an aromatic leafy green with a delicious nutty and peppery flavor. It's great in salads, in pastas, in pesto, on a sandwich, or as a garnish. Live Gourmet Living Arugula takes your favorite from ordinary to extraordinary. Store it! In your refrigerators crisper section Pick it! Remove the amount of leaves necessary for your recipe, rinse, and pat dry. Return any unused Arugula, roots and all to your refrigerators crisper section. Enjoy it! Try other Live Gourmet ® specialty products found in your grocer's fresh produce section. For more recipes and use suggestions please visit our recipe section of our website.

Know a California Farmer: Pete Overgaag
Pete Overgaag, President of Hollandia Produce, talks about greenhouse farming and hydroponic growing. Greenhouse farming has been a tradition in his family in Holland going back 3 generations. Read more about it here, http://www.livegourmet.com/ Hollandia Produce LLC. is a multi-faceted agricultural concern specializing in greenhouse-grown vegetables. A California Corporation family owned and operated, Hollandia is located in Carpinteria, California, just south of Santa Barbara. In 2011 the company celebrated 41 years in business. All of our vegetable products are produced hydroponically in state-of-the-art greenhouses where we control light, temperature, humidity, and nutrients. By controlling these factors we can increase yields, shorten crop times and produce a uniquely uniform high-quality product on a year-round basis. This provides an important marketing advantage when inclement weather conditions can adversely affect quality, availability, and price of field-grown products. Advanced integrated pest management techniques allow us to control harmful insect damage on our vegetables without the use of conventional pesticides or fungicides, in fact we use the same NOP and OMRI pest control techniques organic growers use.

Live Gourmet Red Butter Lettuce
Pete Overgaag, Hollandia Produce President, talks about hydroponically grown Live Gourmet Red Butter Lettuce. http://www.livegourmet.com/redbut.html Red Butter Lettuce is a colorful addition for your favorite recipe. Its tender large red leaves are excellent for salads, sandwiches and can also be used for wraps. Butter Lettuce's delicate flavor is prized in Europe and Its soft buttery texture and sweet flavor makes it a good companion for stronger tasting greens. Combine our Live Gourmet Living Red Butter Lettuce with other Live Gourmet Living salad greens to enhance taste and texture and create a salad experience we know you'll enjoy Butter Lettuces have the softest leaves among all lettuce varieties and are tender with cup shaped leaves that create a loosely formed head. They often resemble a flowering rose. Butter Lettuce is rich in calcium and a good source of iron, vitamins A and C.

Upland Cress Greenhouse Grown by Hollandia Produce
Upland Cress, like all Live Gourmet products, is still alive and greenhouse grown in Carpinteria, CA. Please read more about it here, http://www.livegourmet.com/cress.html Upland Cress is high in phyto-nutrients as well as antioxidant vitamins C and A. Upland Cress can be used in soups, salads, sauces, on sandwiches or as a garnish. Its flavor is peppery and will add a zing to your favorite dishes. Store it! In your refrigerator crisper section. Pick it! Remove the amount of leaves necessary for your recipe, rinse and pat dry. Return any unused upland cress roots and all, to your refrigerator and place in the crisper section. Enjoy it! Try other Live Gourmet® herbs and specialty lettuces found in your grocers fresh produce section.

Butter Lettuce Greenhouse Grown by Hollandia Produce
Pete Overgaag, Owner of Hollandia Produce, talks about the world's freshest and greenhouse grown, Live Gourmet Butter Lettuce. http://www.livegourmet.com/butter.html This special variety of loose leaf head lettuce is the original lettuce introduced by Hollandia Produce. It has a delicate mild to sweet flavor with a firm crisp texture. Growing conditions for this product provide an environment that is free of pesticides and field debris. Using all or part of it from its clear plastic protective shell is as simple as tearing off the leaves needed and using them, with little additional preparation required. Crisp and delicious, it speaks of freshness and salad days.

Living 3-n-1 Lettuce by Live Gourmet
Pete Overgaag, Owner of Hollandia Produce, talks about the Live Gourmet Living 3-n-1 Lettuce. http://www.livegourmet.com/3n1.html Gold medal winning and unlike any other lettuce in the market its America's first living mixed green salad. Three distinct varieties Lollo Rossa, Lollo Bionda, and Red Oak Leaf are grown together and harvested with their roots intact to provide you with the freshest mixed green salad you can buy. Color, texture and flavor were all part of the selection process when developing this new product. 3'n'1 makes a great base for Cobb or Chefs salads and is equally delicious dressed with Italian vinaigrette.

Butter Lettuce Salads
Butter lettuce is a special variety of loose leaf head lettuce is the original lettuce introduced by Hollandia Produce. It has a delicate mild to sweet flavor with a firm crisp texture. http://www.livegourmet.com/butter.html

Live Gourmet Butter Lettuce: Fresh Eating and Living
At Live Gourmet, we sell all of our products with the roots attached so you and your family are buying the freshest lettuce and leafy greens available! http://www.livegourmet.com/

Live Gourmet 3 In 1 Lettuce 101 with Dani Spies
Gold medal winning and unlike any other lettuce in the market its America's first living mixed green salad. Three distinct varieties Lollo Rossa, Lollo Bionda, and Red Oak Leaf are grown together and harvested with their roots intact to provide you with the freshest mixed green salad you can buy. http://www.livegourmet.com/3n1.html

Live Gourmet Butter Lettuce by Hollandia Produce
All of our products are grown in greenhouses in Carpinteria, California. Indoor crops are protected from outside elements, reducing the possibility of contamination. Our elevated growing channels keep our crops from ever touching the dirt, so they stay much cleaner than field-grown crops. http://www.livegourmet.com/

Butter Lettuce 101 with Dani Spies
Watch Dani Spies break down the basics on Butter Lettuce grown by Live Gourmet. http://www.livegourmet.com/