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  1. Pizza Party Takeover with Molly My

    Hi guys, Molly from My Magazine here! I’m celebrating National Salad Month with Taylor Farms and putting a delicious spin on one of my favorite months of the year. Also, guess what? Tomorrow is National Pizza Party Day (another reason to celebrate!). I’m always looking to create recipes that are delicious, healthy, and more importantly, easy.

    I sampled all of Taylor Farms’ NEW Chopped Salad Kits: Avocado Ranch, Maple Bourbon Bacon, and Buffalo Ranch. They’re each loaded with flavor! The hardest part? Deciding which was my favorite.

    A few months ago, I shared a Spicy Buffalo Chicken Soup recipe with Taylor Farms and you guys loved it, which inspired me to put together another buffalo themed dish! The Buffalo Ranch made for the perfect pizza topping — crisp veggies, creamy Monterey jack cheese, and buffalo ranch dressing.

    Recipes like these are super customizable, so long as you have the base ingredients (in this case: pizza crust and your favorite Taylor Farms Chopped Salad), you can make it your own. Cauliflower crust is a great option when you’re looking to indulge a little more mindfully — a yummy alternative that has become one of my personal favorite ways to have a pizza. Bon appétit!

    Buffalo Ranch Chopped Salad Pizza — with Cauliflower Crust 

    Serves 2

    Ingredients:​

    • 1 frozen cauliflower crust of choice, no toppings included
    • Olive oil, for drizzling
    • Taylor Farms Buffalo Ranch Chopped Kit
    • Sea salt
    • Red pepper flakes
    • Grilled chicken, optional

    Directions:

    1. Pre heat oven to 375-400 degrees (depending on your oven and crust instructions).
    2. While the oven is heating, add all salad kit ingredients into a bowl (including grilled chicken, if using) and toss with light dressing. Set aside.
    3. Bake crust (on a pizza pan) for 10-12 minutes, remove from oven and let cool. Once the crust is cool, drizzle olive oil on top and add a pinch of sea salt.
    4. Next, add the tossed salad directly onto the pizza. Top with red pepper flakes for some spice.
    5. Once you’ve sliced individual pieces of pizza, use any remaining dressing as garnish for extra flavor!

     

    *Depending on the type of cauliflower crust you buy and your oven, baking can be tricky! I personally love my pizzas to be crunchier and a little on the burnt side. Whichever your style, keep an eye on your pizza as it bakes — and note: it will harden up as it cools. 

     

    Photography by Shannon Leigh Photography

     

  2. Team Taylor Brings Fresh Veggies to Students with Weekend Food Security Program

    On Friday January 27, Team Taylor kicked off the Weekend Food Security program, an initiative that delivers fresh Taylor Farms produce to 200 kids in after-school programs at Fairview Middle and La Gloria Elementary. Every Friday from now through June 2, (excluding three school observed holidays), these after-school programs will receive weekly produce donations including items like Taylor Farms chopped salad kits, stir fry kits, snack trays, and vegetable medley packages.

    Team Taylor Brings Fresh Veggies to Students with Weekend Food Security Program

    This particular program is part of the City of Gonzales’ initiative called The Gonzales Way – helping assist the town with its community health and wellness goals by providing the students and their families with wholesome, fresh food to supplement for weekend family meals.

    “The ‘Weekend Food Security’ program idea came about as part of our commitment to frequent communication by city staff with local business leaders,” says René Mendez, Gonzales City Manager. “We are constantly looking for opportunities to collaborate with our business community.”

    “It’s always a good day when we’re handing out healthy products to the kids. Last week, a few of the La Gloria kids called out to me, ‘Hey did you bring us vegetables again?’ I could see the recognition in some of the kids, they were waving at us,” says Chrissy Fink, ‎Office Manager at Taylor Farms Retail, and regular volunteer for this program. “At Fairview Middle School, when we pulled up, some of the older boys asked if they could help us unload. Before we knew it, we had quite a few kids helping us unload the truck. It was really great to see.”

    Students helping unload donated product

    Students helping unload donated product

     

    Taylor Farms offers a similar food security program for our employees that work in the Gonzales processing plant. We are also excited to be a part of donating fresh produce to the twice-monthly Mobile Fresh distribution, a pilot program of the Second Harvest Food Bank in Tracy, CA.

    Two children holding Taylor Farms Products

    Students helping unload donated Taylor Farms products

    Team Taylor Brings Fresh Veggies to Students with Weekend Food Security Program

    “There are so many ways to get involved and make a positive impact in other people’s lives. The hope is that through these initiatives, we’re able to give people access to fresh, nutritious food and show them how to make the most of it. We want to use our time and variety of Taylor Farms products to help turn healthy habits into healthy lifestyles,” said Sam Chaidez, Director of Operations for Taylor Farms Gonzales.

  3. Supporting the Future: Scholarship Program Tops $1 Million in Academic Scholarships

    For ten years, Taylor Farms has been awarding college scholarships to outstanding students looking to further their education, and this year, the program doubled!

    Recently, we held the 2018 Taylor Farms Scholarship Fund of the Community Foundation for Monterey County luncheon and awarded 20 students – more than ever before – college scholarships. These recipients are all children of active, full-time Taylor Farms employees.

    Scholarship Program Tops $1 Million in Academic Scholarships

    Congratulations to the 2018 recipients:

    • Juan Carlos Rios Rodriguez – California State University, Long Beach
    • Hector Juarez-Vargas – University of California, Berkeley
    • Grayson Michael McGrew – University of California, Los Angeles
    • Justin Farias – California State University, Monterey Bay
    • Daniel Munoz – Cal Poly Pomona
    • Diego Ramirez – California State University, Chico
    • Christian Ortiz – University of California, Davis
    • Dylan Urias – Arizona State University
    • Javier Acosta – Arizona State University
    • Joshua Alfaro – San Francisco State University
    • Paola Estrada Tena – University of California, Davis
    • Maria Elisa Santiago Cruz – University of California, Santa Barbara
    • Giselle Camarena Rodriguez – San Jose State University
    • Nini Isabel Preciado – Arizona State University
    • Denisse Garcia Zavala – University of Arizona
    • Maria Guadalupe Jaramillo – San Jose State University
    • Sarahi Ramirez Cortes – California State University, Monterey Bay
    • Griselda Tizcareno – Arizona State University
    • Melissa Rios Arias – University of California, Merced
    • Grace Niccum – Northern Arizona University

    To support students throughout their entire academic career, each recipient receives an upfront check for $5,000 with a guaranteed renewal of $5,000 for every year they remain in an undergraduate or graduate program at a university. This year, in addition to the $100,000 for the new recipients, the program awarded over $150,000 in renewed scholarships.

    Scholarship recipient Juan Carlos Rios Rodriguez and his family

    Scholarship recipient Juan Carlos Rios Rodriguez and his family

    “I have so much respect and admiration for Taylor Farms. Their commitment to higher education and to our community is incredible,” said Miguel Zavala, 2015 Taylor Farms Scholarship Recipient and UC Berkeley, School of Law, Graduate. “Their generosity and support has allowed me to achieve my dream of graduating from Berkeley Law.”

    Scholarship recipient, Paola Estrada Tena pictured with Bruce Taylor and Mark Campion of Taylor Farms

    Scholarship recipient, Paola Estrada Tena pictured with Bruce Taylor and Mark Campion of Taylor Farms

    The Taylor Farms Scholarship Program was formally developed in 2012, although we have been awarding scholarships to students since 2008. The scholarship member selection committee consists of 12 Taylor Farms employees, and to date has awarded over $1 million in scholarships to 95 recipients.

    Taylor Farms employee Griselda Juarez Vargas accepts scholarship check on behalf of her son, Hector Juarez Vargas

    Taylor Farms employee Griselda Juarez Vargas accepts scholarship check on behalf of her son, Hector Juarez Vargas

  4. Celebrate National Avocado Day with us!

    Happy National Avocado Day! Here at Taylor Farms, we’re big fans of this green superfood. We love it in smoothies, salads, wraps  or even as vessel for our food (bowls and plates are overrated). We love it so much that we even created a chopped kit as an ode to this nutritional powerhouse: our Avocado Ranch Chopped Kit.

    Photography: Isabel Eats

    It is packed with delicious bright veggies including romaine, cabbage, carrots, crisp corn, and green onion. Drizzled with our creamy Avocado Ranch Dressing for a refreshing salad with a hint of heat from the cilantro and taco seasoned cheese. It was recently awarded the Innovation Award in the ‘Best New Vegetable Product’ category at United Fresh!   

    Pick up our Avocado Ranch Chopped Kit at a store near you to celebrate with ease, or checkout some of these delicious recipes we’ve rounded up for the occasion:

    Stuffed Avocados

    Grilled Tilapia, Lime and Avocado Tacos

    Avocado Ranch Poke Bowls

    Avocado Ranch Chopped Salad with Roasted Chickpeas

    Plus, we’re giving you THREE opportunities to win a shipment of our Avocado Ranch Chopped Kit. Stay tuned on our Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to see how you can enter to win!

     

  5. Guest Blogger: POPEYE THE SAILOR MAN!

    Introducing our weekend guest blogger – Mr. Popeye himself! Learn about what this superfood lover has up his sleeve this weekend.

    Get ready for a fun-filled, SpinachFest Weekend featuring none other than POPEYE THE SAILOR MAN!

    This Saturday, July 15,  Amazon Prime is running a special Popeye promotion on their social channels to let fans know that The Continuing Adventures of Popeye are now available for streaming. Be sure to check it out!

    Then, on the Mighty Mariner’s social channels and his Official YouTube channel, you’ll find a new Popeye AniMinute celebrating — you guessed it — National Fresh Spinach Day! To add to the fun?  Popeye, in collaboration with Taylor Farms, the company that produces the Popeye brand of fresh spinach, is running a giveaway contest!

     

    The Sweepstakes will be hosted via Facebook and Instagram on Sunday with the winner announced on Monday.  Fans are asked to like/follow Popeye and Taylor Farms and then make a comment about how they are incorporating spinach into their daily meals using #FreshSpinachSweepstakes and tagging two friends in their post.

    Prizing: 2 Winners, 1 per platform (1 on Facebook, 1 on Instagram) plus two friends each (6 total people) will win a month’s supply of fresh spinach (via redeemable coupons), courtesy of Taylor Farms. So much fun! So healthy! See the official rules below.

    OFFICIAL RULES