We grow and ship a large variety of produce that meets your standards, every time.
You can’t afford to take a chance on quality or consistency. When you work with Little Bear Produce, you will have peace of mind that you can depend on the quality of each shipment you receive.
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Little Bear’s melons are the sweetest you’ll find. A refreshing treat and a healthy choice with their high water, vitamin, and mineral content, they’re the perfect summer snack.
A Little Bear exclusive, HoneySweets® are the mildest onions on the market. All the pleasant, sweet onion flavor, with none of the unpleasant, pungent bite.
Related Recipe: Stuffed HoneySweet® Onions
Low in calories and high in nutrients, greens are one of the world’s healthiest foods. We grow a wide variety of greens and herbs known for their superior flavor and long shelf life.
Related Recipe: Sweet Kale & Feta Salad
Delicious raw or cooked, cabbage is a wonderful source of dietary fiber, vitamins and minerals. We love it braised low and slow to bring out its natural sweetness for a comforting cold-weather dish.
Related Recipe: Baby Bok Choy Ginger Fried Rice
Fresh, crunchy, and full of flavor. Our celery is hand-picked to ensure only the best quality makes it on your shelves.
There’s some things you can only get with Little Bear—like no tears when chopping onions, or produce with higher nutrient content, or greens bagged directly on the site that they’re grown.
We combine cutting-edge cultivation with tried and true growing and harvesting practices to ensure that our customers always receive the best produce on the market. We work directly with you to determine your produce needs and facilitate the entire transit process—from field to truck to your distribution center—in order to reduce shrinkage and deliver the freshest products to your shelf.
Moderate winters and rich soil in the Rio Grande Valley provide the perfect growing conditions for our greens and onions.
We believe our slow and steady growing process naturally produces a much longer shelf life.
Our appetite for the most nutritious and best tasting produce is never satisfied. We are constantly investing in research and trialing new varieties to help increase flavor and reduce overall inputs and our commitment to develop new farming, harvesting and production practices is unwavering.
Our in-house Horticulturist, Dr. Carlos Lazcano (Doc), oversees land selection, prep, proper crop rotation and monitoring, ready to adjust to various insect, weather, and disease factors. Doc educates our farm managers “by the book” methods to maximize yields while controlling potentially harmful circumstances that Mother Nature may throw our way.
Our HoneySweet® Onion is a single seed variety that is grown in multiple locations around the world to capture the best conditions to produce the most consistent, mild onion on the market. Our beta sweet maroon carrot was developed by Dr. Leonard Pike of Texas A&M University and contains approximately 40% more beta carotene than orange carrots along with flavonoid compounds from the antioxidant anthocyanin.
That’s why we’ve assembled a team of the best food safety experts in the region, with more than 50 years of combined food safety experience. We’re using the latest technology to drive continuous improvement. When you’re a leader, it can be easy to rest on your laurels, but that’s not our style.
Our proprietary packing process, our custom-built packing lines, and our leadership on industry-wide food safety boards demonstrate Little Bear’s commitment to food safety not only for our company, but for the industry at large.
Recyclable & Reusable Packaging & Shipping Containers to reduce our carbon footprint
Drip Irrigation & Retention Ponds to conserve precious water resources
Custom Wind Breaks & Cover Crops to preserve topsoil and replenish soil nutrients
Composting and Soil Health Management so roots grow stronger, oxygen moves more freely in the soil, and erosion is reduced
Organic Expansion to meet consumer demands, increase soil fertility, and use less non-renewable energy
Fresh Cut and Food Waste Reduction to utilize nearly all of the product
Partnering with “Imperfect Produce” Distributors to send produce that doesn’t make it on retail shelves to organizations that support food insecurity