Minnesota Greens Live Lettuce from Bushel Boy – an incredible new product grown right here in Owatonna and shipped fresh and live right to the store.

Other lettuce is cut and shipped the traditional way. Minnesota Greens is a living plant – with its root system intact. You get maximum freshness and a longer shelf life from every head.

And, just like we do with our beefsteak, vine-on and Baby Boy grape tomatoes, we pick our Minnesota Greens at the height of perfection and rush it to your store as fast as we can – usually within 24 hours. So it’s not only live. It’s locally grown. We think you’re going to find it’s tastier and crisper than brands grown and shipped in from somewhere else.

Because it’s living lettuce. Even after you take it. The roots continue to supply water and nourishment to the plant. You just pick off the leaves, wash them, and eat. And (unlike ordinary lettuce that’s killed when it’s harvested and begins to wilt after just a day or two) Minnesota Greens stays at peak freshness long after you buy it.

And it’s in stores now. Look for Bushel Boy Minnesota Greens Live Lettuce at Twin Cities area grocery stores including Cub Foods, Lunds, Byerly’s, Kowalski’s, Super Target and other independent grocery stores next time you shop.

Salads to sandwiches, lettuce is never going to be the same.

We grow Minnesota Greens in a special greenhouse. It’s cleaner, safer, and healthier than growing lettuce in fields like they do in California and Mexico.
We start with a special system that handles each seed individually and carefully plants it in a preformed plug (the plugs come in trays). To assure perfect germination, we “incubate” the seeds in a temperature and humidity controlled room for 48 hours.
Once our seeds have germinated, we take them to an area where they can grow a little. It’s a very delicate stage. We pay special attention to make sure they get just-the-right mount of water for 5-7 days. Next, we transfer the baby lettuce to special propagation tables out in the greenhouse. They’ll spend 2-3 weeks (depending on whether its summer or winter) getting bigger and stronger.
When they’re just the right size, we transfer the plants from production tables to production gutters. A perfect mixture of nutrients and water flows through the gutters and feeds each plant.
Another 2-3 weeks, and our Minnesota Greens live lettuce is ready to harvest. No cutting the head off and shipping dead lettuce. We uproot each plant and rush it to the store live. You can’t get and fresher or crisper than that.