Enhanced Safety Practices – Key to Prevent COVID-19 on California Strawberry Farms

Over the past nine weeks, the California Strawberry Commission’s (CSC) bilingual outreach and training team has been in the fields providing guidance and training to ensure the safety of our vital workforce in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic. Protecting the health and safety of each and every worker is the goal of the commission’s outreach campaign.

California Strawberry Growers and Farm Workers Pick Safety

I Pick Safety is a new effort from the California Strawberry Commission to highlight farm worker safety and industry-leading training and safety practices by emphasizing that everybody is responsible to always pick safety.

Strawberry Consumption Improves Heart Health in Teenaged Males

The 2019 Berry Health Benefits Symposium resulted in a collection of papers recently published in the journal Food & Function. Among the papers was “Effects of short-term consumption of strawberry powder on select parameters of vascular health in adolescent males” authored by Roberta Holt, Carl Keen, and their team at University of California, Davis.

California Strawberry Commission Issues Open Letter to Our Partners in the Food Supply Chain

During the uncertainty caused by the COVID-19 Pandemic, the food supply chain has been called upon to create stability for the country. As the largest agricultural employer in the country, California strawberry farms were among the first to implement CDC guidance. Strawberry farms are committed to protecting farm worker health, maintaining farm jobs and harvesting every box for American consumers.

California Strawberries Launches 2020 “Snack with Heart” Campaign

The California Strawberry Commission will kick off its 2020 consumer “Snack with Heart” campaign this spring, aimed at connecting the heart of strawberry farmers with the heart of consumers.