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Closed Loop Farms is a year-round urban farm based at The Plant in Chicago's Back of the Yards neighborhood. Founded in 2015, it grows microgreens, herbs, edible flowers, and salad greens using beyond-organic, soil-grown practices, serving approximately 200 restaurants and hundreds of home consumers across Chicagoland with a team of 15 employees.

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Giumarra pick box containing grapes. Our Grapes The Giumarra Family has been growing both wine and table grapes for over 80 years. We grow many of the top commercial varieties, as well as several of our own proprietary ARRA varieties in our ranches which stretch from the Arvin/Wheeler Ridge area in California's central San Joaquin Valley all the way to Ducor in the North. We supply grapes year-round to supermarkets and wholesalers in North America, Central and South America, Australia, Asia, and the Middle East. A Giumarra Employee inspecting a bunch of grapes. Our People Table grapes grow and thrive in parts of the world where the weather is hot, like the San Joaquin Valley and the Coachella Valley in California. Grapes are a labor-intensive commodity that is harvested in the hot summer months and well into the fall. They require hand labor in the preparation of the crop and are also.

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