Vineland Distributor Joins Frosty Acres Cooperative

Seashore Fruit & Produce Company of Vineland recently became the newest member of the cooperative Frosty Acres Brands, the national foodservice marketing and purchasing cooperative for independent distributors. Seashore Fruit & Produce Company is a leading distributor of fresh fruit, produce, and dairy products in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland. The business was founded

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Rooted in Art

My grandparents’ living room had my grandpa’s two remarkable, big, vertical embroidered tapestries of two white storks over a light blue background,” Rosa said. “Visiting their house had something special, something that I couldn’t recognize at the time. Now I know—I was falling in love with textiles.” Rosa Maria Lucar, a self-taught textile artist and

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Vineland Health Department Announces Bivalent Boosters

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has announced that the bivalent COVID-19 vaccine has been approved for booster doses for certain individuals at least two months after completion of the primary series or last COVID-19 booster. A bivalent booster is designed to protect against the original COVID-19 variant and the Omicron variant. This

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Our Native Gum

It was while taking carving lessons with Vernon Smith over 30 years ago that I first became familiar with tupelo. We were carving fancy birds as opposed to smooth decoys. The choices of wood for our class were basswood or tupelo. Many competitive carvers, including world champions, use tupelo, which can be worked with hand

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