Demand for Local Butter Lettuce Good in Louisiana

By Astrid van den Broek, FreshPlaza.com

Tapping into the local food supply trend, one Louisiana-based grower is seeing a demand for its product, butter lettuce, grow in a new type of greenhouse. “We’re greenhouse grown so our supply of butter lettuce right now is great,” says Kohlie Frantzen of Helical Outpost Farms, LLC.