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True Leaf Farms

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Employer Introduction

Our People

At Church Brothers Farms, we believe our most valuable resource is our team of people from the field, trucks, salad processing plant to the office. Their safety and well-being reflects on the product we produce day in and day out.

A grower owned Processor

Being a grower owned fresh vegetable processor, is True Leaf Farms' differentiator.

True Leaf Farms is the grower owned processing facility and brand of our value add product line. The combined farming programs of the Gill and Church families create a strong, year-round source of raw product for our True Leaf Farms processing plant.

As Steve Church describes it, “our processing plant is an orchestration.” Our talented team at the plant syncs the efforts of farming, harvesting, food safety, quality assurance and sales to produce hundreds of triple washed SKUs daily.

True Leaf Operations begins with reliable growers and researched seed varieties. Food Safety and Quality Control Programs establish the guidelines to begin and determine how we will proceed. Carefully selected fields are either machine or hand harvested into totes or bins, depending on the crop. In many cases a refrigerated truck brings the field product to the processing plant.

The plant operates under Good Manufacturing Practices (GMP) and Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Points (HACCP) guidelines. It is refrigerated at 34-36 degrees to keep products cold and at the peak of freshness. Products typically are cooled and stored upon arrival and processed in a timely manner. Multiple washes clean surface area and control bacteria; and product is centrifuged gently to remove excess moisture. Form, Fill and Seal machines and other sealing devices package the ready product and after a final quality check, the boxes are marked and put on pallets for shipment throughout Northern America.

Our workers in the field and in the plant are trained and dedicated, preparing each bag and box to meet rigorous safety and quality criteria. We also have a dedicated team of packaging, marketing and research experts constantly working to improve current formats and create new items.