The fresher lettuce journey (The Boston Globe)
By Alice Lesch Kelly It’s time to make a big, beautiful salad. You pull out a bowl. You gather and prepare your ingredients—juicy tomatoes, crispy cucumbers, crunchy carrots, zesty radishes,…
Little Leaf Farms sponsoring 2020 Pan-Mass Challenge (ProduceGrower.com)
By Chris Manning Jun. 29, 2020 Little Leaf Farms, per a press release, is a sponsor of the 2020 Pan-Mass Challenge the largest seller of controlled environment agriculture lettuce in the U.S.,…
Paul Sellew: How We Plan to Rebuild in the Post-COVID Economy (Authority Magazine)
By Charlie Katz Jun. 21, 2020 Little Leaf Farms is fortunate to be a food producer and an essential business, so we have fully maintained operations through the pandemic. We…
NY Price Choppers carry Little Leaf Farms lettuces (ThePacker.com)
By Amy Sowder Jun. 10, 2020 Baby leaf lettuces grown by Little Leaf Farms, Devens, Mass., are at 137 Price Chopper stores throughout New York state. The expansion is part of greenhouse company’s…
Worcester Regional Food Hub upended its operation to focus on individual orders for curbside pickup amid coronavirus (MassLive
The spike in demand also helped the local farmers. While their traditional partners struggled, the Worcester Regional Food Hub offered an alternative through the pandemic. “We had part of our…
2020 Power 50: Paul Sellew (Worcester Business Journal)
Sellew’s not the only hydroponics grower in Massachusetts, and it’s not his first time finding such success with a startup. Something with Little Leaf Farms has certainly worked, though. Little…
Worcester Regional Food Hub starts to sell local farm products for pickup (Worcester Business Journal)
The Worcester Regional Food Hub typically helps food startups and connects farmers with restaurants and other food-centered entities. During the coronavirus pandemic, though, it’s now shifting to consumer sales, in…
Table Hoppin’: Bull Run in Shirley regroups with takeout and Provisions Shop (Worcester Magazine)
By Barbara M. Houle May 14, 2020 Crucial to the restaurant’s success is the longstanding personal relationships with local vendors such as Little Leaf Farms in Shirley, a 25-acre hydroponic…
Strong, local food system helps economy, keeps jobs (Boston Business Journal)
By Paul Sellew and Andrew W. Kendall Apr. 15, 2020 Not long ago, most of us had grocery shopping on our to-do lists, along with our other routine tasks: doing…
Indoor Lettuce Farm Sees Demand Grow (NECN)
Little Leaf Farms CEO Paul Sellew talks about his indoor lettuce farm where business is growing. Massachusetts residents are seeking locally grown greens as they stay at home. View the…
