Welcome Rosa Cerda! (Left)

Babe' Farms Sales Coordinator
Rosa has been with Babe' Farms since 2001 and previously worked in human resources. Rosa will be handling orders and assisting in sales. She is an enthusiastic addition to the Babe' sales department!

rosa@babefarms.com

Terrie Cardoza
Sales Support & Customer Service
Terrie has been with Babe' Farms for almost two years and has been an integral part in developing and improving our food safety program. Terrie does a wonderful job assisting in the sales department and handling consumer calls! (She's a sports fanatic too!)

terrie@babefarms.com

Babe' Farms is now growing, packing and shipping ultra blanched "Blonde" Frisee. A member of the chicory family, frisee has narrow frilly leaves with a blanched heart. Babe' Farms gourmet trimmed "Blonde" Frisee is a head of entirely yellow (no green leaves) delicate tendrils and is virtually a 100% edible product. "We've been growing regular baby and full-size frisee for over 20 years," said Ande Manos of Babe' Farms sales and marketing. "But with our mild climate, unique growing and harvesting practices we're now able to produce this lovely, pale-yellow head of frisee." According to Ms. Manos, chefs treasure this type of delicate lettuce for its curl, texture and durability to heat. Additionally, this frisee is the ideal component for duck comfit or for the French bistro classic salad with poached eggs and bacon. Blonde frisee is grown year-round at Babe' Farms of Santa Maria, Ca. and is packed 12ct heads in the exclusive Babe' Farms "Blonde Frisee" box. For further information contact Babe' Farms sales at 1-800-648-6772 or sales@babefarms.com.

Sept. 30, 2009---Babe' Farms, the pioneer in baby lettuces and specialty vegetables, has added Baby Lettuce Bouquet to their packaged baby head lettuce product lineup. This latest release is a collection of gourmet baby head lettuces combined with heads of elegant blonde baby frisee, packaged in convenient clamshell containers. "The baby lettuces and platinum frisee are an attractive and savory combination," explained Ande Manos of Babe' Farms sales and marketing. "Consumers are able to create a garden fresh salad with specialty baby lettuces and accent it with tendrils of blonde frisee." Babe' Farms' Bouquet lettuces are comprised of any one of six heads of baby lettuce varieties selected from the best in season of green or red oak, red perella, lollo rossa, red or green tango, or speckled robins egg lettuces; along with the heads of blonde baby frisee. Consumer-friendly flag labels, offering fresh salad ideas and the recipe for Babe' Farms signature "Final Touch" salad dressing, are attached to the clamshells, which come six to a carton. Baby Lettuce Bouquet features bilingual packaging for Canada, year-round availability and has a 14-day shelf life in proper refrigeration (34 - 36 degrees F). For additional information, contact Babe' Farms Sales at 1-800-648-6772 or sales@babefarms.com.

With energy costs on the rise and an environmental imperative to be more energy efficient, Babe Farms has been actively on the lookout for ways to cut energy costs. So when Babe Farms was approached by EnerNOC last year to participate in a program to help the environment and get paid to do so, VP and General Manager Jeff Lundberg jumped at the chance. Clean Green California, offered through Pacific Gas & Electric and managed by EnerNOC, is a unique demand response (DR) program that pays businesses to be on standby to reduce energy in the event that electricity supply runs short. The program is a cost-effective and clean alternative to building more power plants that would otherwise be necessary to meet growing demand. Babe Farms gets paid year round, regardless of whether or not an event is called - the company's willingness to be on standby is like an insurance policy for the electric grid. If a DR event is called, Babe Farms has 30 minutes to shut down one or two of its irrigation pumps for the duration of the event, which typically last between two and eight hours. Shutting down just these two pumps puts approximately 350-400 kilowatts back onto the electrical grid - that's approximately the amount of power needed for 125 households. When hundreds of facilities throughout the region do this at the same time, the threat of the electrical grid not being able to meet demand is lessened. By participating in Clean Green California, Babe Farms benefits in several ways. First, DR programs provide a significantly lower cost and more environmentally sound alternative to building more peaking power plants, which emit ~5,100 metric tons of CO2 in only 100 hours of operation. Second, DR programs help prevent blackouts. By choosing to reduce during these critical times, Babe Farms is enabling households in its community to keep their lights on. Finally, the financial benefits for participating in the program are significant. Under its agreement with EnerNOC, Babe Farms could potentially earn up to $15,000 per year for its participation. Lundberg says that participating in Clean Green California has been easy, and operations have not been negatively affected. "We have been able to work around the down time by either starting pumps earlier the next day or after the event is over," he says. Because of Babe Farms, and businesses around the country like it, electricity is conserved in a clean, reliable way. Babe Farms' decision to participate in EnerNOC's DR program was another way to enhance its "green" practices. Other aspects of the farms' sustainability efforts include avoiding over-packaging of its products and reducing the amount of ink used on the packaging. In addition to these environmentally-friendly practices, Lundberg hopes to increase the business' energy efficiency practices to help save even more energy.