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Fresh & Live · A TSAC initiative

Fresh thinking.
Living plants.

Keep the roots. Bring the harvest closer. A new approach to salad plants, with growing, packaging, and delivery designed together.

Discover the idea

TSAC’s first focus for pilot development.

Product concept showing a tray of living salad plants under a clear cover.

The idea

Keep the roots. Rethink the journey.

Grow salad plants with their roots intact so they can be harvested closer to the point of use. Pilot work will test growing conditions, packaging, handling, and the user experience together.

  • Root-intact plants

    A living-plant format rather than a pre-cut salad product.

  • A complete product journey

    Growing, packaging, handling, and harvest considered as one system.

  • Evidence before promises

    Freshness, food safety, packaging performance, and economics to be measured through pilot work.

Packaging concepts

Butterhead and mixed-color lettuce.

Two pack concepts for salad plants that reach the point of use with their roots intact.

Butterhead lettuce

Packaging concept for living butterhead lettuce.

Mixed-color lettuce

Packaging concept for green and red living lettuce.

Proposed range

A considered starting range.

Eight starting formats, from whole lettuce plants to mixed leaves and microgreens. Varieties and packs will be refined through growing and handling trials and partner feedback; these are development concepts, not products currently offered for sale.

  • Butterhead lettuce

    Single-variety living plants.

  • Baby leaf mix

    Mixed salad leaves.

  • Spinach

    Leafy-green format.

  • Kale

    Specialty leafy-green format.

  • Red lettuce

    Color and variety across lettuce types.

  • Rocket / arugula

    Peppery salad leaves.

  • Microgreens

    Small-format specialty greens.

  • Mustard mix

    Mixed mustard leaves.

Growing and packaging

Design the system around the plant.

TSAC brings crop requirements, controlled-environment production, root-supporting packaging, and the route to market into one development plan.

  • Growing approach

    Define crop-specific environmental conditions and repeatable trial protocols before scaling production.

  • Packaging development

    Evaluate formats that support the plant and practical handling. Material choices are assessed against plant health, handling, and verified disposal requirements.

  • Operational fit

    Test the requirements of transport, storage, food safety, and use in the intended setting.

Pilot pathway

Build a pilot around a real use case.

TSAC welcomes conversations with potential growers, packaging specialists, food-service teams, and retail partners who can help define and test a focused pilot. Pilot scope and partner roles are agreed individually.

  1. Define

    Agree the use case, crop selection, partner roles, and practical constraints.

  2. Test

    Run a scoped growing and packaging trial with clear food-safety and quality criteria.

  3. Learn

    Review measured outcomes, user feedback, operating requirements, and economics.

  4. Decide

    Use the results to decide what to develop next.

The team behind the program

Part of TSAC’s integrated approach.

Fresh & Live connects crop science with practical product development through The Sustainable Ag Company.

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Start a conversation

Help shape the first Fresh & Live pilot.

Bring a growing, packaging, supply, or customer-use question. We can start by defining what a useful pilot needs to prove.

Discuss Fresh & Live