Pre-cooler facility helps grow fresh produce businesses
Since 2014, lifelong friends Tony Serrano, president of JAS Family Farms Organics, and Pat Coash, owner of Koppes Plants, both in Watsonville, Calif., have been sharing cooling for commodities. In doing so, they gain two seasons out of what’s typically one seasons.
JAS grows organic squash, artichokes and Brussels sprouts and sells to retailers and wholesalers throughout the United States, while Koppes is a wholesale strawberry nursery supplying commercial growers throughout the United States and Canada.