All About SweeTango Apples with The Produce Moms

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Get your pumpkin spice fix with a Pumpkin Spice Smoothie!

It’s pumpkin spice season! It’s also apple season. October is National Apple Month. Celebrate both with this smoothie that combines pumpkin and SweeTango® apples. The result is a nutritious smoothie that tastes just like pumpkin spice.

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Fresh to the Core: Caramel Apples

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Applewood Fresh & Tastee Apples

Tastee is America’s #1 Caramel Apple! We have partnered with Tastee to bring you the best tasting product for almost 40 years. Choose from delicious caramel to chocolate & jelly apples… made from a special, homemade recipe.

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Fresh to the Core: September Harvest

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Locally Grown Harvest Season

It’s just not fall without slicing into some homemade apple pie & sitting by the fire with hot apple cider. So many of our favorite fall treats get their deliciously sweet, crisp flavor from handpicked apples off the trees of our beautiful & bountiful Michigan orchards. Promote apples heavily to play on consumers’ natural inclination to buy apples as part of their fall purchases.

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APPLEWOOD GEARS UP FOR 2019 HARVEST SEASON

SPARTA, Mich. (July 9, 2019) — Applewood Fresh Growers LLC expects a production increase of 20 percent over last year for SweeTango®. As the lead marketer in the Midwest for the variety that comes from the Minnesota breeding program, Applewood Fresh promotes the marriage of the Honeycrisp and Zestar! varieties in SweeTango for its standout flavor and texture. SweeTango is expected to start in Michigan around September 3rd.

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Fresh Michigan Asparagus Coming Soon!

We are excited to partner with New Era’s American Asparagus to bring you the best asparagus Michigan has to offer! Michigan is now the largest asparagus growing region in the US thanks to our unique, sandy loam soil. With a short season starting May 12 & ending in June, make sure to order this highly anticipated vegetable.

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Don’t miss out on May Promos!

May is a great time to promote fresh produce and boost customer engagement. Heat up produce sales with these May marketing themes: National Salsa Month, National Salad month, Memorial Day & Mother’s Day.
Apple pie is the obvious summer promo, but get consumers thinking beyond pie by offering fruit salad recipes, fruit trays with apple slices or other ideas for side dishes, like apple salsa.
Don’t forget about ordering our MI asparagus! It’s the perfect time to take advantage of warmer temperatures so tie in asparagus with other grilling essentials!

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Press Release

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Applewood Fresh expands into asparagus!

Applewood Fresh Growers LLC has expanded to offer fresh Michigan asparagus in addition to its apples. The asparagus season in Michigan lasts from approximately May 10 to June 25. This is a tight window for the harvesting season, so the company’s partner, New Era’s American Asparagus, is sharp day in and day out on production.

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Fresh to the Core

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Quite possibly the sweetest apples you’ll ever taste!™

Biting into your first KIKU® apple is an experience not soon forgotten. Super sweet in flavor, juicy and crisp, KIKU® apples are one of Mother Nature’s finest creations. KIKU® apples are ruby-red in color, with a striking striped appearance. With Earth Day around the corner and Kiku, one of Mother Nature’s finest creations, there’s no better time to celebrate locally grown apples! Meet our growers, they’re the apple of our eye!

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Fresh to the Core

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Apple Madness is a fitting title for March! This month is full of fun promotional opportunities. Celebrate National Nutrition Month, St. Patrick’s Day and March Madness by creating multi-variety ads and plan for visually stimulating displays with lots of color that feature many popular apples, including Evercrisp, the apple of the month!
EverCrisp® is the ever crave-able apple! A yummy snacking apple that holds a powerful crunch – combining the best features of its parent varieties, Honeycrisp and Fuji. The durable apple is now available and has a long shelf life – maintaining sweetness and firmness for months. Your customers will love them and keep coming back for more!

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Valentine’s Day is around the corner. The apple is frequently used as the symbol of love so it is time to start flooding your social media and produce department with everything LOVE. Create eye-catching displays and utilize our downloadable resources to make your produce department a memorable shopping experience!

Did you know February is Heart Health Month? Hearts love apples so use this month to raise awareness and encourage your shoppers to make healthy changes.

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