Cascade Snow Cauliflower, a product of Skagit Growers, is treated with the utmost care during its journey from field harvest to your store shelves.

Our cauliflower is field harvested and each worker involved in the harvest operation has a specific job. The cutters cut and trim the cauliflower leaves to that pleasing taper that the consumer expects. The cutters are also responsible for covering any exposed heads that will be harvested in the future. This prevents the sun from reaching the heads, causing sunburn or yellowing. From the cutters, the cauliflower is handed to the wrappers who wrap and tape the cauliflower. These workers also dispose of any less than perfect heads that may have been cut. The wrappers pass the cauliflower on to the sizers who sort the cauliflower by size and place it in boxes. These sizers sort the cauliflower into groups of 9’s, 12’s and 16’s. After being boxed, the cauliflower is placed on pallets in a covered trailer, which minimizes sun exposure.

When ten pallets have been filled, the trailer is complete. This process usually takes around three hours. At the time of completion the trailer is hauled directly to the cooler where the cauliflower is unloaded immediately and placed directly onto cooling fans. Once the cauliflower is on the fans it takes approximately six hours to bring the core temp of cauliflower to a temperature below forty degrees. After being cooled, the cauliflower is moved to a thirty-four degree storage room where the temperature of the cauliflower is brought down further to a level below 35 degrees after a period of twenty-four hours.