For home delivery, Baldor Specialty Foods, Bronx, N.Y., has created a Peak Season Box of fresh fruits and vegetables in their prime time.
The first box appeared on the Baldor website Jan. 26, selling at $42, according to the company’s marketing team.
Until the COVID-19 pandemic, Baldor primary delivered wholesale foods to foodservice companies, plus a line of value-added produce sold at retailers.
Since then, the company has offered direct-to-consumer delivery in select Northeast zip codes, including New York; New Jersey; Connecticut; Massachusetts; Rhode Island; Maryland; Washington, D.C.; and Pennsylvania.
Baldor has a home-delivery minimum of $100 or $150 depending on the location of residence, and the orders are hand delivered.
For the Peak Season Box each week, a Baldor team scouts out the best pieces to determine the contents, and five to eight products are sent out to consumers.
The items are local to the consumer whenever possible but can also come from outside the U.S. and may include produce otherwise only available in wholesale sizes, according to the marketing team.
The specialty items will be limited amounts, but there is a new box release each week.
The week of Feb. 6 Peak Season Box contains:
- Wild Twist apples: A new hybrid of Honeycrisp and Cripps Pink apples, grown by Lancaster, Pa.-based Hess Bros. and Selah, Wash.-based Rainier Fruit;
- Organic cara cara oranges: Grown by Deer Creek Heights Ranch, Porterville, Calif.;
- Daisy mandarins : Grown by Young’s Nursery, Thermal, Calif.;
- Italian Castelfranco radicchio: Grown in Italy and air shipped for freshness;
- Organic Hinona Kabu turnips: Grown by County Line Harvest, Thermal, Calif.;
- Organic rainbow carrots: Grown by Norwich Meadows Farm’s near Syracuse, N.Y.; and
- Butterball potatoes: Grown by Mountain Sweet Berry Farms, Roscoe, N.Y.