This month Taylor Farms Foodservice in Yuma, Arizona donated some of our delicious fresh veggies to the Yuma Fresh Vegetable Association’s Farm Fresh Forks. This program offers visitors an opportunity to taste the freshest and healthiest locally-grown products, with unique culinary twists created by talented area chefs. As the featured farm, we supplied the four participating restaurants our Just Beets, Cauliflower Pearls, and Kale & Beet Salad Blend – in turn the chefs created different vegetable tasting masterpieces! {You can find similar products to these foodservice items at your local grocery store – Cauliflower Pearls}
Hopefully these the Farm Fresh Forks creation will inspire you in your cooking endeavors this week!
River City Grill’s Raw Cauliflower Couscous with Kale, Beets, Carrots, Walnuts, and Cranberries
The Patio’s Sweet Beet Mousse with Toasted Cauliflower and Rainbow Slaw
The Garden Café’s Colorful Shredded Beet & Cauliflower Salad served with a Honey Mustard Vinaigrette
For more culinary inspiration make sure to visit the recipe section of our website and be sure to share your creations with us by tagging #TaylorFarms.
Team Taylor wants to congratulate Wally Brondstatter, the varsity girls water polo coach at San Lorenzo Valley High, for being awarded this season’s KSBW Golden Whistle Award!
Brondstatter has been coaching for over a decade and is retiring this year. He received an overwhelming number of nominations from his athletes and their parents hoping to get him recognized – and it worked! Here are some of the nice words they had for him:
“[Brondstatter] builds individual relationships with every athlete, whether on his team or not.”
“Wally Brondstatter is more than just our coach, for many of us players, he is a dear friend, close confidant, and a second father to us. Wally created an environment within [San Lorenzo Valley High] that was inclusive and open. His ability to help install confidence, talent, and maturity in his players is a testament to his tremendous leadership skills, and his kindheartedness… Wally wanted every player on his team to find a sense of community and family, and to learn the skills of perseverance, dedication, and the importance of having a strong support system… Wally is not just a coach, he is a positive, driving force in the lives of his players.”
“As a player I can say that everyday is a good day on the pool deck, there are many times that Wally has been the best coach ever. He encourages us to be better and is really a great person.”
“[Brondstatter] has coached for many years, and always with a smile. He goes out of his way to acknowledge all individuals and help them improve.”
“After the last Cougar varsity water polo game, Wally had all the girls in a huddle, and was trying to say how much they meant to him, how much he has enjoyed coaching these incredible young women, and how much he was going to miss them. Everyone, including Wally, was so emotional they could hardly speak. Everyone knew this was his last game, and the girls played their hearts out for him and it showed. Wally has built our school an incredible water polo program and has put [San Lorenzo Valley High] on the map for this sport. He has left a lasting impression for years to come — one that many girls coming up in this sport will benefit from. He will be sorely missed by parents, players, school staff, and friends. Wally is one of a kind!”
Congratulations, Wally!
Taylor Farms, the Transformational Coaches of Monterey County, and the Central Coast Section of California Interscholastic Federation come together each high school athletic season, (Fall, Winter & Spring) to present the KSBW Golden Whistle Award. The award is given to a local Central Coast high school coach who is recognized by the community as an exceptional coach and mentor who strives to positively transform young athlete’s lives.
This is Taylor Farms’ 5th year sponsoring the KSBW Golden Whistle Award.
Ag Against Hunger recently hosted their 26th Annual Agricultural Woman of the Year Recognition Luncheon. The award honors the work of a woman from Monterey, Santa Cruz and/or San Benito County that has made an exceptional and unique contributions to promote the agricultural industry. Taylor Farms is a proud sponsor of this empowering award and attended the event to help celebrate the recipient.
This year’s Ag Woman of the Year is Sylvia Prevedelli, an organic farmer, who came to America from Italy in 1966. When Sylvia came to America, she did not know anything about farming, and now she is involved in every aspect of farming and agriculture. Congratulations Sylvia!
The event was hosted at the Ted Taylor Vocational Center at Rancho Cielo, a facility designed to offer training for students who will be better prepared entering jobs in the agriculture industry.
Ag Against Hungerprogram under the Grower Shipper Association Foundation, set to better serve the needs of the agricultural community. Ag Against Hunger’s purpose is to be a community-based program to further Ag Education and Childhood Nutrition through gleaning local fields and distributing to the local food banks.
We congratulate Sylvia on being named 2019’s Ag Woman of the Year by Monterey County’s Ag Against Hunger.
Team Taylor Attendees: Quincie Gourley, Jessica Harris, Maria Ramirez, Aimee Inobaya, Lindsey Alves, Nicole Flewell, Alejandra Sanchez, Amy Pemberton
Ag Against Hunger recently hosted its 24th annual Agricultural Woman of the Year luncheon at Paraiso Vineyards by Smith Family Wines in Soledad, California. Taylor Farms was proud to be a Platinum Sponsor of this empowering award and attend the event to help celebrate the 2017 Woman of the Year recipient — Tonya Antle, Cofounder, EVP, Organic Produce Network.
Taylor Farms Team at Annual Luncheon
“One of the greatest gifts I can give is spending time with and helping to inspire young women in the produce industry,” Antle shared. “These bright and enthusiastic women reaffirm to me that the future looks bright for our industry. My mentor, Frieda Caplan, has done the same for me over my career, so I in turn, have paid it forward ever since.”
Tonya Antle, Cofounder, EVP, Organic Produce Network.
Ag Against Hunger is a nonprofit organization that works with local Monterey county growers, packers, and shippers (including Taylor Farms) to distribute more than 12 million pounds of surplus fresh produce to food banks each year.
Kacie Vieth Ragsdale, Director of Product Development, Taylor Farms Retail, has been on the Ag Against Hunger council for four years, and she helps select the recipient of this award.
“The Agricultural Woman of the Year is someone who embodies what Ag Against Hunger is as an organization, and someone who works tirelessly to promote, preserve, and protect agriculture in the Salinas Valley and beyond,” says Kacie. “This yearly award luncheon is one of the main fundraisers for Ag Against Hunger, and it raises awareness about the organization.”
We congratulate Tonya on being named 2017’s Ag Woman of the Year by Monterey County’s Ag Against Hunger.
Find out how you can get involvedinAgAgainstHunger.
The Taylor Farms team was thrilled to join hundreds of inspiring bloggers as a sponsor of Tastemaker Conference 2018. Hosted in Salt Lake City, Utah, the conference was a two-day event filled with insightful workshops and empowering panels.
Attendees enjoyed delicious lunches (hello Taylor Farms Stir Fry Kits + Chopped Salad Kits), as well as tasty snack breaks in the darling Farmer’s Market area, featuring tasty products some of our friends at The Wonderful Company, Sipp Sparkling, Bare Snacks, Simple Mills and more. They were also given Taylor Farms’ protein packed snack packs to fuel them for the afternoon panels + workshops!
We were honored to connect with some incredibly talented women and men in our little Taylor Farms kitchen, where many boomerang videos ensued! To celebrate our theme of Eating Beautifully, we handed out gift bags to the attendees, packed with all kinds of Taylor Farms goodies, from pins, recipe cards, postcards, and notebooks, to mason jars and coupons!
Des & Kadee of Oh So Delicioso
Tastemaker Conference is a conference where food bloggers gather to meet, and create. It is a place for entrepreneurs, bloggers and creatives to come together and spark conversation around topics they are passionate about, including brand building, influencer marketing, food styling, photographing and more. Most importantly, it’s set up to empower you to make lifelong connections in a community of creatives who want to influence the world with their gift for food. And here at Taylor Farms, we’re big fans of that. Taylor Farms was joined by other influential brands such as Thermoworks, The Wonderful Company, Bare Snacks, Simple Mills, Killer Whey, Feel Good Foods, Redmond Real Salt, Silver Fern Brand, along with many others.
Learn more about Tastemaker Conference, and be on the look out for tickets to their 2019 conference!
