Pero Vegetable Company
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Pero Vegetable Company, LLC is an American-based agricultural corporation headquartered in Delray Beach, Florida and is a large US pepper grower and shipper. Pero Vegetable Company produces bell peppers (green, red, yellow and orange), specialty peppers (such as chili, pimiento, jalapeno, and cubanelle), cucumbers, squash, zucchini, grean beans, eggplant, pickles, cabbage (red and green), cantaloupe and honeydew.
Pero Vegetable Company, LLC was founded in 1908 in Western New York by Sicilian immigrant Peter Pero, whose ten year old son would bring their crops to the train station by horse drawn wagon. Over four generations later, the Pero Vegetable Company is still family owned and family farmed.
Today the company has farms located in Delray Beach, Florida, Omega, Georgia, Benton Harbor, Michigan, Texas,and Tenessee.
[edit] References
- Pero Vegetable Company, LLC
- Pero Kids Website
- Fresh Plaza article: Pero Vegetable Company: increasing greenhouse operation in Canada
- Fresh Plaza article: Pero’s Hydroponic Farm takes farming into future with cucumber crop
- Jim Prevor's Perishable Pundit article
- Produce Business, June 2007, Vol. 23, No. 6
[edit] External links
- Palm Beach Post article: Inside vegetable business, a new mystery author grows
- Publisher's Weekly, Who is Charles Pero?
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