Big E Premium Produce Related Info Lettuce Romaine Cabbage Broccoli Cauliflower Celery Spinach Cilantro Home » Our Products » Broccoli Broccoli Availability: Year Round Unit size: 14's and Crowns Broccoli prefers temperatures below 75 degrees, so the cool, foggy weather of the Lompoc valley is perfect for it year round, with just enough frost in the winter to sweeten it. It has a shorter shelf life than cabbage, and improperly stored, it turns yellow and shows damage very quickly. Big E moves our broccoli to market as quickly and gently as possible. Clean facilities, careful handling and focused attention to the cold chain mean that your shipments of broccoli will reliably arrive in impeccable condition. You can count on it! Guaranteed fresh! Contact Us for more information. About Us Our Products Safety & Quality Facilities and Logistics Job Opportunities Contact Us © Copyright 2010. Allrights reserved. Big E Produce, Inc. 901 Floradale Avenue Lompoc, CA 93436 ph. (805)735-8338 fax (805) 735-4469

Big E Premium Produce Related Info Our Story Our Management Team Our Locations Home » About Us » Our Story Our Story Big E delivers reliability, quality, and value. In 1982 Jesse Espinoza began buying fields of produce from local farmers. He would fill his pickup truck in the evenings and drive to Los Angeles to sell to packaged salad companies, returning to work each morning before 6:00am. He began planting one, then two fields on his own. With time and hard work, those fields turned into four, then five until he reached his present production. Plowing his profits back into his growing business, Jesse invested in equipment, always working to improve his efficiency and the quality of his produce. He brought his sons and grandsons into the business as it grew, and invented processes and equipment to increase his quality and consistency. Striving for quicker, more efficient delivery, he invested in semi trucks and flatbed trailers, then bought and built coolers for more control over the chain of cold. At Big E we do all of our own heavy work; rip, plow, disc, and listing. We also plant, irrigate (using furrow irrigation, sprinklers, and drip depending on the conditions), cultivate, and harvest. Produce is immediately pre-cooled at one of our two facilities in one of our stainless steel vacuum tubes, and then transferred to be shipped from our docks. This control and oversight of the whole process is an important part of why Big E can guarantee the freshness of everything we ship. Jesse Espinoza developed the culture of innovation and quality control that is the hallmark of Big E. Today, Jesses son, Jose, and grandsons carry on that tradition. Over the past 3 decades Jesse and his family have built Big E into a thriving business with a reputation for speed, quality and freshness. About Us Our Products Safety & Quality Facilities and Logistics Job Opportunities Contact Us © Copyright 2010. Allrights reserved. Big E Produce, Inc. 901 Floradale Avenue Lompoc, CA 93436 ph. (805)735-8338 fax (805) 735-4469