date:Aug 12, 2013
tive, the price goes up, Bibbs said.
Leo Charette, of Leo's Produce Inc., said he was forced to purchase produce from farther away because so many crops in the Southeast were ruined this summer.
We are actually in a crisis, he said. There are no tomatoes in Florida or Georgia. We are having to pull out of California.
Leo's Produce supplies fruit and vegetables to 130 area restaurants and school systems in six counties.
Squash is $30 a box right now, which is ridiculous. This time of year it