From The Dallas Morning News:
An odd sort of déjà-vu strikes when you see the Ruibal’s Rosemeade Market sign in east Carrollton. Isn’t Ruibal’s Plants of Texas the place across the street from the Dallas Farmers Market?
Yes, it is. The family nursery business with two other Dallas locations bought out Rosemeade Market and Greenhouse, but not to change the concept. Rather, they want to improve it, Mark Ruibal says.
The Ruibal family plans to do what it does well, he says, by developing the nursery side of the business.
That leaves former owner Chuck Cox and most of his crew free to concentrate on the market side, which already emphasizes fresh produce, much of it from daily runs to the Dallas Farmers Market, as well as artisanal and natural foods, such as unhomogenized, low-temperature-pasteurized local milk (the closest you can buy to raw).
The idea of combining the nursery and market concepts “is where nurseries are going in the future,” says Ruibal.
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