Mucci Farms featured vendor in Ontario's Metro stores

KINGSVILLE — Mucci Farms has become a featured vendor in Metro’s Locally Sourced program for 2021. The program began in 2016 and helps find new, impactful ways to spotlight its local vendors.

Through the program, Metro sources and supports local food vendors across seven regions in Ontario through promotion within their stores. Over 800 local products from more than 150 local suppliers are currently available in their stores across the province.

Mucci Farms is well known in this area as a world-class grower of greenhouse vegetables. They are a vertically integrated greenhouse grower dedicated to maximizing quality, food safety and efficiency using world-class technology and clean farming practices.

As a forward thinking organization, Mucci Farms places an emphasis on sustainability, environmental responsibility and reducing food miles to offer consumers with the best quality of fruits and vegetables in the market 365 days a year.

Mucci is one of Metro’s fresh vendors who uses non-traditional methods to grow fresh produce inside a greenhouse.

Mucci’s humble beginnings started over 60 years ago when two brothers from Italy immigrated to Canada with a passion to grow fresh, flavourful, fruits and vegetables. A generation later, Tony and Gino’s children have taken the company to new heights with a variety of commodities, aggressive expansions and the launch of Mucci International Marketing Inc., the Sales & Marketing arm of the organization.

Mucci Farms has a variety of produce they grow from their greenhouses including tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, eggplant, zucchini, mushroom, lettuce and herb, strawberries, all of which also comes organic.