Beat the end-of-summer blues with a little help from our fresh and tasty greens! Cook up something delicious for summer’s last hurrah! Keep reading for three tasty recipes for the three-day-weekend ahead!
You can cross Labor Day Appetizer off your list. We’ve got you covered with these BBQ Chicken Salad Cups. You only need 3 things to get to make these little guys.
Or try using our NEW Roasted Garlic Chopped Kit as the base for these Tequila Shrimp Salad Cups for a fun alternative!
Labor Day also marks the start of Football season, which has us craving our Cauliflower Wings. Have you tried them yet?
In a hurry? Pick up our Taylor Farms Veggie Trays and customizes them with your own crackers, dips and extra veggies and fruits for an easy and crowd-pleasing appetizer! Be sure to tag us in your Labor Day Weekend Eats on Instagram.
Our favorite month of the year is finally here and we want to celebrate with you! It’s National Salad Month and we’re pulling out all of the stops! You can look forward to tips and recipes on how to put your best salads forward with fresh, tasty and healthy inspiration to keep you living your best life. Plus we have partnered with only the best salad sidekicks around to bring you tasty giveaways – stay tuned on our social channels.
Want to show off your sweet salad skills? Make sure to tag @yourtaylorfarms and #GoToGreens in your salad creations for the chance to be featured on our feed!
At Taylor Farms, we are committed to preserving a healthy world for future generations. In addition to our renewable and alternative energy initiatives, we also focus on waste reduction in our journey to reduce our carbon footprint.
Just last year, Taylor Farms became the first-ever fresh food company to achieve TRUE Platinum certification for Zero Waste. To receive this certification, our Director of Sustainability Nicole Flewell and our Gonzales ‘Green Team,’ launched the Zero Waste program with the goal of reducing incoming materials, reusing existing materials when possible, and recycling what remains throughout the facility, achieving a 94% diversion from landfills. We have decreased landfill contribution by 56%, reduced greenhouse gas emissions by 30,923 MTCO2E, which is equivalent to taking 6,510 cars off the road annually. In addition, Team Taylor worked with our growing partners to move to 100% reusable bins and totes, eliminating all single use and wax cartons from the supply chain.
Addressing food accessibility and providing nutritional resources to those in need is an important part of our mission. Each year, we donate over 5 million lbs. of fresh produce to local food banks and charitable organizations, including Ag Against Hunger, Brighter Bites, Salvation Army and Weekend Food Security Programs. Vegetable by-products generated through processing are recycled by third party companies who utilize it for animal feed and compost. We also help reduce food waste in your homes with our value-added products, like Chopped Salad Kits and Stir Fry Kits, which are perfectly portioned, so you can use every part of the product to make something healthy and delicious, without any food being thrown away!
Here at Taylor Farms, we celebrate the Earth everyday with our environmental sustainability initiatives. We know that one bag of salad won’t change the world but how we make it might! We make our products with our consumers, farmers, and our planet in mind; making products you can feel good about. Stay tuned this Earth month as we uncover 4 key ingredients in our recipe for a sustainable future, starting with our initiatives to save energy.
Through a combination of solar panels, a wind turbine, fuel cell technology and a cogeneration energy system, Taylor Farms has seen a total reduction of 12,190 metric tons of CO2 over the course of the year – equivalent to the annual greenhouse gas emissions from 2,588 vehicles. Our renewable and alternative energy initiatives reduce greenhouse gas emissions and power our operations with clean energy. With these environmentally-conscious sources of power, we’re on our way to new heights of energy independence!
We have installed a total of 18.5 acres of solar panels at 5 of our facilities, which together produce 8.4 MILLION kWh/YEAR! This massive amount of renewable energy is equivalent to the energy used to power 675 homes per year.
The blades of our 398-foot tall wind turbine in Gonzales, CA spin up to 20 rotations per minute and supply up to 1 megawatt of power. The greenhouse gas emissions avoided are equivalent to 3,823,584 miles driven by an average passenger vehicle during the course of a year.
Our Bloom Fuel Cells allow us to generate clean, reliable power onsite by converting natural gas into electricity. Producing a total of 7 million kWh/year, each kWh produced is up to 21% cleaner than the traditional utility grid.
Our natural-gas powered cogeneration system is an important part of our advanced, three-part renewable and alternative energy system, offsetting annual energy by 62% at our Gonzales, CA-based veggie facility. Together, power from our wind turbine, solar array and Concentric Power cogeneration plant reduces our carbon footprint and offsets annual energy usage by over 90%!
A sustainable future is important to us, and we will continue to focus on renewable energy in our journey to reduce our carbon footprint and promote a healthy environment. Stay tuned to learn more about our recipe for a more sustainable future!
