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By Monica Busch Little Leaf Farms in Devens has doubled its greenhouse growing capacity to 10 acres, allowing the hydroponic greens manufacturer to produce more than 2 million packages of lettuce each month, the company announced on Wednesday. “It’s been a long time...

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, creamy avocado, and a tangy vinaigrette. Then you reach into the fridge for...

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., is a sponsor of this year’s reimagined PMC. Little Leaf Farms will join the...

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 primarily sell to grocery stores, and our sales surged as everyone was eating at home. We are...

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 growth in the Northeast, according to a news release. The company is...

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 business that was food service, institutions and restaurants, that business...

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 Leaf, which opened in 2016, has expanded from a 2.5-acre greenhouse to one...

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 order to help local farmers and producers reach the...

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 farm and leading producer of baby lettuces sold throughout the Northeast. Paul...