HGBloghead

home.grown. Apple Farmer Features

Local Apples: One of our Favorite home.grown. Crops We’re proud to partner with a wide variety of apple orchards and cider mills here in our region: When it’s made of grown here, we get it here. Apples are one of

champlain valley

National Thank A Farmer Day

National Thank A Farmer Day At Price Chopper & Market 32, we’ve been supporting local farmers since our company founding in 1932. This includes partnering with all types of local farms, not just fruits and vegetables growers: greenhouses, dairy farms,

kids in an orchard holding red apples

An Apple A Day Keeps The Athlete Okay!

An Apple A Day Keeps The Athlete Okay!  Written by our home.grown. friends at the New York Apple Association  You know apples are healthy and nutritious. You may not know that they can also help athletes go further by improving

HG hard squash

It’s home.grown. Hard Squash Season!

It’s home.grown. Hard Squash Season!   When it comes to autumn, no food represents the season like the colorful rinds and stout shapes of squash. We’re proud to source our hard squashes from local farmers here in the Northeast each

hot sauce of the month pics

September’s Hot Sauce of the Month: PICS Hot Sauce!

Hot sauce junkies, heat connoisseurs and spiciness fanatics: We’re comin’ in hot with our next monthly feature! Each month we’re bringing you fresh stories on a different sauce brand, sharing some flavor insights, stories behind the brands and more. Travel

summersquash

August is Peachy-Zucchini!

Ellie Wilson, MS, RDN Senior Nutritionist August has started off with beautiful weather – clear skies and warm temps make for great vacation days and summer barbecues. It is also a “hot” month for local produce! August 8th is National

cornfrittersFB

5 Ways to Enjoy Local Sweet Corn This Season

Homegrown sweet corn is one of our specialties and just one example of how we celebrate the flavors of the Northeast. We team up with a variety of Northeast farms to choose seed varieties that produce the most tender, flavorful