Taylor Farms is all about bringing people together with healthy, fresh foods and we know that your summer has been filled with special moments where a good meal has sparked conversations, brought family and friends closer, and created lasting memories.
We want to help you savor these memories, and make even more, with a chance to win an awesome prize pack: a month of Taylor Farms Chopped Salad Kits, a $100 gift card to Shutterfly, and a $100 gift card to Williams-Sonoma!
We have two tasty new salad kits — sold exclusively at Walmart — to celebrate the Summer Salad Season!
Cranberry Almond Blue Cheese Shred Cutz Salad Kit includes iceberg lettuce, crunchy croutons, cherry cranberries, and slivers of almonds with a blue cheese dressing. Turn this into a entree salad with the addition of your favorite protein — may we suggest bacon?
Homestyle Ranch & Cheddar Shred Cutz Salad Kit includes iceberg lettuce, crispy onions, and cheddar cheese with a creamy ranch dressing. Throw some shredded chicken on it and you’ve got a delicious, nutritious, and easy dinner!
The crisp iceberg lettuce, premium toppings, and hand-selected dressings in these kits are perfectly refreshing for summertime! They are also super convenient because — like our other kits — everything you need is included right in the bag. The prep work is taken care of, all your veggies are washed and ready to eat, and the salad takes less than three minutes to prepare. All so you can get back to enjoying summer the way you want to — we want to help you save time to make time for the important things!
Interested in trying one? Hurry to your local Walmart, and click here for a $1.00 off coupon! Share your salad creations with us by tagging #TaylorFarms on Instagram, Facebook or Twitter.
Coach Elliott has more than 20 years coaching, overall, with the past 9 years at Santa Catalina. His players and colleagues say he is patient and an excellent teacher. He has a lighthearted nature and puts an emphasis on good sportsmanship.
One of his players writes, “Coach Elliott is an amazing coach because he focuses on how to make us better players by demonstrating enthusiasm, drive, and love for the game. He constantly inspires me to make him proud in not only volleyball but also in everyday life. Additionally, his devotion to the team provides us with a stable and fun learning environment that makes us eager to show up for each and every practice. Overall he is the greatest coach I’ve ever had because of his nonstop belief in the team and everyone’s abilities to perform on the court.”
“Paul cares deeply about students and supports them off the field (and out of the gym) as much as he does on. His humility and dedication are remarkable,” said a colleague of Coach Elliott.
Coach Elliott lives as he teaches, and leads by example with his team and the community, like when a rival team visited from South County. After the bus ride and volleyball matches, he arranged for the visiting team to stay and have dinner in Santa Catalina School’s dining room with his team, so no one would have to travel all the way back on an empty stomach.
“It was great to be apart Coach Elliott’s Golden Whistle award, and see just how many athletes he has made an impact on,” saidAdri Crawford of Taylor Farms.
We’ll leave you with one last bit of praise from one of his players, “Coach Elliot is so dedicated and committed to our team and pushes us to achieve our fullest potential. He genuinely cares about all of us and sets us up to be successful in sports, as well as in life. His sense of humor brings light to our lives and his enthusiasm encourages us to learn from our failures.”
Congratulations, Coach Elliott!
Taylor Farms and the Transformational Coaches of Monterey County pair up each high school sports season to present KSBW’s Golden Whistle Award. The award is given each athletic season to a local coach who is recognized by the community as an exceptional coach and mentor who strives to positively transform young athlete’s lives. Any coach at a public, private, or parochial high school on the Central Coast is eligible to be nominated by a player, parent, principal, or teacher.
Taylor Farms was honored to be a stop on a Salinas Valley Blogger Tour last week, hosted by California Farm Water Coalition and Western Growers. The tour focused on introducing bloggers to agriculture in Monterey County and show where their food comes from.
During the tour, four awesome bloggers from around California learned, first hand, about how food is grown, the critical labor shortage agriculture is facing and the innovative technology being developed to serve as a solution to this ag labor shortage, the truth behind inputs such as crop protectants, and the water issues facing growers. The tour stopped at Tanimura & Antle, Sierra Farms, Mission Ranches, and Western Growers Center for Innovation & Technology, with Taylor Farms as the final stop.
The Taylor Farms Gonzales, CA based facility hosted Chelsea Day of Someday I’ll Learn, Brandi Jeter of Mama Knows It All, Lizz Porter of More Than Thursdays, and Danielle Simmons of A Crafty Spoonful, and teach them about the process of how we take the fresh vegetables from the fields and turn them into products like Taylor Farms Chopped Salad Kits and how we produce these fan-favorites while being as energy efficient and sustainable as possible (so you can feel good about eating them!)
“Taylor Farms was selected to be the culmination of the tour because we wanted to expose the bloggers one of the prime leaders in innovation, retail and value-added products,” says Stephanie Metzinger, Communications Manager, Western Growers.
Mama Knows It All’s Brandi told us how much she enjoyed learning a little more about where the veggies come from, how they’re packaged, and the people who grow and produce them.
“I knew Taylor farms was responsible for bringing some of my favorite produce to market,” said Brandi. “What I didn’t know was how many jobs they bring to the country or about their commitment to the environment. I’m super impressed!”
Thanks so much to California Farm Water Coalition (@farmwater) and Western Growers (@western_growers) for putting the #cfwcfarmtour together and to the four bloggers for coming to our facility!
Last week Taylor Farms hosted a Farmers Market at our Salinas, CA headquarters to raise money for the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF). For just $20, Taylor Farms employees, their families, and the local community received a blue Taylor Farms-branded reusable tote bag to fill up with donated salads and fresh veggies from Taylor Farms and D’Arrigo Bros. Co., and berries from Driscoll’s.
Lisa Borne, Jennifer Golden, and John Meyers of Taylor Farms
More than 150 people from the community attended the Market, and helped us raise over $3,000 — all of which will directly benefit JDRF.
JDRF is committed to accelerating life-changing breakthroughs to cure, prevent, and treat type 1 diabetes (T1D) and its complications. They are the global leader in the funding and research of T1D.
Taylor Farms Interns, Rachelle Proa and Quincey Gourley, supporting Market sales
“Diabetes is an issue I hold close to my heart, as I am a Type 1 Diabetic. It means so much to work for a company dedicated to supporting causes like the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation and that empowers us to be creative in our involvement and fundraising,” says Jennifer Golden, Office Manager at Taylor Farms. “Hosting a Farmers Market was the perfect way to promote healthy lifestyles while fundraising for this important cause.”
Thank you to everyone who helped us support this cause!
Photo: The Toasted Pine Nut
