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San Diego’s cauliflower luck

All those paleo and Atkins diets

Purple cauliflower at the PB Farmers' Market
Purple cauliflower at the PB Farmers' Market

"Act of God,” is what Produce Alliance recently posted about cauliflower, “DEMAND EXCEEDS SUPPLY. We are seeing high prices and NON-EXISTENT supply. The crops in Yuma are very slow and the cauliflower growth rate is slow.”

Since 1996, Produce Alliance specializes in providing distribution services and fresh-produce procurement to clients in the foodservice industry across mainland U.S.

“I just paid $9.99 for a head of cauliflower in New York City!!” posted carolerene on the Reddit website.

Others from different states, on the same thread which started approximately a month ago, weren’t so fortunate, and ranted that their local stores did not have the vegetable in stock or upped the price.

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San Diego on the other hand, has plenty of cauliflower.

Pacific Beach Tuesday Certified Farmers' Market

  • Along Bayard Street, from Garnet to Hornblend

At the Pacific Beach Tuesday Farmers Market on Jan. 12, three of the vegetable vendors present had organic cauliflower in stock.

“Prices are high because of the weather. Cauliflower got a late start this season because of the dry and hot weather in August and September, when cauliflower begins to be planted in California,” said Robin Taylor, the co-owner of Suzie’s Farm in Imperial Beach, “and then the freezing temperatures starting in December extended the growing time from 90 days to 120 days.”

Place

Suzie's Farm

1856 Saturn Boulevard, San Diego

Suzie’s Farm organically also grows and sells variations of the standard cauliflower; including purple, cheddar, and romanesco.

Suzie's Farm display booth

“We sell them in a case which either has 9, 12, or 16 heads and the case is the same price, just the number of heads is different, said Taylor. “At the lowest of the market is could be $18 [per case], and the highest it could be $60 [per case]. The prices change daily when there is this much demand.”

Yahoo (finance) relayed similar numbers by posting the USDA chart on their website on Christmas day 2015, which showed that cauliflower wholesale prices have almost tripled from the summer just months prior, to winter 2015.

Pacific Beach Farmers' Market

Goyo Rodriguez from JR Organics, trekked in from Escondido to also sell in Pacific Beach, he stated that his organic cauliflower has jumped approximately from $3 per pound to $4 per pound since last year. For the local low-carb foodies, that extra dollar per head will add up quickly, as cauliflower is a common substitute for rice to many on the Paleo and Atkins diet regimens, because the vegetable can be chopped into small pieces that resemble the feel of rice, with way-less carbs and plenty of Vitamin C. Across from Rodriguez was the Masala Cottage booth selling Indian food, including Aloo Gobi, a vegetarian curry in which they utilized cauliflower as the main ingredient for $7 per serving.

Vons on 30th Street and Pancho Villa Farmer’s Market on El Cajon Blvd both had plenty of organic and nonorganic cauliflower in stock (as of 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 12) ranging from $2.49 to $3.99 per head.

“This will all change shortly,” said Taylor, “since Holtville California, where a majority of the cauliflower is planted, will start harvesting.”

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Purple cauliflower at the PB Farmers' Market
Purple cauliflower at the PB Farmers' Market

"Act of God,” is what Produce Alliance recently posted about cauliflower, “DEMAND EXCEEDS SUPPLY. We are seeing high prices and NON-EXISTENT supply. The crops in Yuma are very slow and the cauliflower growth rate is slow.”

Since 1996, Produce Alliance specializes in providing distribution services and fresh-produce procurement to clients in the foodservice industry across mainland U.S.

“I just paid $9.99 for a head of cauliflower in New York City!!” posted carolerene on the Reddit website.

Others from different states, on the same thread which started approximately a month ago, weren’t so fortunate, and ranted that their local stores did not have the vegetable in stock or upped the price.

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San Diego on the other hand, has plenty of cauliflower.

Pacific Beach Tuesday Certified Farmers' Market

  • Along Bayard Street, from Garnet to Hornblend

At the Pacific Beach Tuesday Farmers Market on Jan. 12, three of the vegetable vendors present had organic cauliflower in stock.

“Prices are high because of the weather. Cauliflower got a late start this season because of the dry and hot weather in August and September, when cauliflower begins to be planted in California,” said Robin Taylor, the co-owner of Suzie’s Farm in Imperial Beach, “and then the freezing temperatures starting in December extended the growing time from 90 days to 120 days.”

Place

Suzie's Farm

1856 Saturn Boulevard, San Diego

Suzie’s Farm organically also grows and sells variations of the standard cauliflower; including purple, cheddar, and romanesco.

Suzie's Farm display booth

“We sell them in a case which either has 9, 12, or 16 heads and the case is the same price, just the number of heads is different, said Taylor. “At the lowest of the market is could be $18 [per case], and the highest it could be $60 [per case]. The prices change daily when there is this much demand.”

Yahoo (finance) relayed similar numbers by posting the USDA chart on their website on Christmas day 2015, which showed that cauliflower wholesale prices have almost tripled from the summer just months prior, to winter 2015.

Pacific Beach Farmers' Market

Goyo Rodriguez from JR Organics, trekked in from Escondido to also sell in Pacific Beach, he stated that his organic cauliflower has jumped approximately from $3 per pound to $4 per pound since last year. For the local low-carb foodies, that extra dollar per head will add up quickly, as cauliflower is a common substitute for rice to many on the Paleo and Atkins diet regimens, because the vegetable can be chopped into small pieces that resemble the feel of rice, with way-less carbs and plenty of Vitamin C. Across from Rodriguez was the Masala Cottage booth selling Indian food, including Aloo Gobi, a vegetarian curry in which they utilized cauliflower as the main ingredient for $7 per serving.

Vons on 30th Street and Pancho Villa Farmer’s Market on El Cajon Blvd both had plenty of organic and nonorganic cauliflower in stock (as of 6:30 p.m. on Jan. 12) ranging from $2.49 to $3.99 per head.

“This will all change shortly,” said Taylor, “since Holtville California, where a majority of the cauliflower is planted, will start harvesting.”

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