2009 Fresh Festival on Capitol Hill

The 2009 Fresh Festival, held September 9 in the historic Cannon Caucus Room, included 19 companies exhibiting apples, avocadoes, bananas, blueberries, carrots, mushrooms, pears, pineapples, potatoes, strawberries and watermelon! With over 700 attendees, including produce industry leaders from across the country, Members of Congress, USDA and FDA officials and key staff members, the Fresh Festival on Capitol Hill is a unique, fun-filled evening that celebrates produce.  This event enables produce companies to share samples of  their healthy and delicious fruits and vegetables while educating policy makers about our industry's top policy issues.

2009 Exhibitors
American Mushroom Institute (Washington, DC) C.H. Robinson Worldwide LLC (Eden Prairie, MN) CA Grown Campaign (Sacramento, CA) California Strawberry Commission (Watsonville, CA) Chiquita Brands (Cincinnati, OH)
Crunch Pak (Cashmere, WA) Del Monte Fresh Produce N.A. (Coral Gables, FL) Embassy of Mexico (Washington, DC) Florida Dept. of Agriculture and Consumer Services (Tallahassee, FL) Grimmway Enterprises (Bakersfield, CA)
Idaho Potato Commission (Eagle, ID) New Jersey Dept. of Agriculture (Trenton, NJ) National Watermelon Association (Plant City, FL) New York Apple Association (Fishers, NY) North American Blueberry Council (Folsom, CA)
Pear Bureau Northwest (Milwaukie, OR) Produce for Better Health Foundation (Wilmington, DE) Ready Pac Foods, Inc. (Irwindale, CA) Walter P. Rawl & Sons, Inc. (Pelion, SC)

Produce for the 2009 Fresh Festival on Capitol Hill is distributed by Belair Produce, Inc.

For more information about Fresh Festival on Capitol Hill, please contact Andrew Marshall at 202-303-3407 or amarshall@unitedfresh.org

Washington Public Policy Conference, September 9-11, 2009