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Produce distributors in Denver

Denver built two wholesale produce markets in the same year, lost both, and never replaced them. One burned, one was bought and demolished for redevelopment, and the trade scattered into industrial parks where it still is. One company on this page still trades on the old market site and says so itself.

  • 16 distributors, each read off the company's own website or its corporate parent's, in September 2026.
  • USDA publishes a terminal market price report for twelve US cities. Denver is not one of them.
  • No paid placements and no rankings. Filter by what they carry, who they sell to and how you can buy.
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16
Suppliers listed
Each verified against its own website
12
Independent houses
Local specialists and regional distributors
2
Walk-in options
Cash and carry, so no delivery minimum
1929
Oldest still trading
Colo-Pac Produce

Every produce distributor we verified in Denver

Filter by what they carry, how the business is set up, who they sell to, how you can buy, and where they are. 15 of 16 publish a phone number and 16 publish a street address; where a company does not, the field is left out rather than filled in.

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Restaurant Depot Denver

Cash and carryLincoln Park

A cash-and-carry warehouse you can buy from without a sales rep. Its own wine and spirits page states that Restaurant Depot is a state-licensed wholesaler and that anyone with a state-issued resale license and an alcohol license can buy, and it names one wine steward for Colorado, at Denver. It publishes a Colorado liquor customer application as a downloadable form. The West 13th Avenue warehouse opens seven days a week, and there are two more metro branches at Greenwood Village and Broomfield plus one in Colorado Springs. Its own home page separately carries a Fresh Produce heading alongside deli, meat, seafood, dairy and dry groceries, which is what puts it on our Denver produce page too.

  • A state-licensed wholesaler, open to any holder of a resale and alcohol license
  • One named Colorado wine steward, at Denver
  • Three metro warehouses plus Colorado Springs
  • Open seven days a week

Serves: Restaurants

Address
1740 W 13th Avenue, Denver, CO, 80204
Phone
(303) 260-6005
Visit restaurantdepot.com

Colo-Pac Produce

Local specialistElyria SwanseaEst. 1929

A Denver produce house, family run since 1929 and now in its fourth generation. Its own history page names the three businesses it has been: The Denver Tomato Company, Rocky Mountain Fruit and Produce, and Colo-Pac Produce. The tomato side still trades as Den-T-Co and calls itself the leading tomato supplier for grocery stores, restaurants, food services and small resellers in the region. Delivery is included in the order price, and the company also runs a pick-up service for farmers market stallholders and event caterers.

  • Trading since 1929, across four generations
  • Den-T-Co tomato packing and distribution
  • Delivery cost included with every order
  • Open from 6:00 am Monday to Saturday

Named programs

Den-T-CoThe Denver Tomato Company

Serves: Restaurants, Grocery stores, Food services, Small resellers

Address
4345 Oneida Street, Denver, CO, 80216
Phone
(303) 291-0155
Visit colopac.com

Alpine Summit Sales

Local specialistMontbelloEst. 1985

A Denver produce firm formed in 1985 that began as a brokerage, buying for wholesale, retail and foodservice companies, and has since added warehousing and repacking. It runs a year round indoor produce market that is open to the public, which is rare in this metro. The site names its whole sales desk by hand, each with a direct mobile number. It makes no delivery claim anywhere.

  • Formed in 1985, with brokerage roots
  • Year round indoor produce market, open to the public
  • Warehousing and repacking alongside distribution
  • Every salesperson listed with a direct mobile number

Serves: Wholesale companies, Retail companies, Food service companies, The public

Address
11170 E. 47th Ave., Denver, CO, 80239
Phone
(303) 756-6554
Visit alpinesummit.com

5280 Produce

Local specialistElyria SwanseaEst. 2013

Founded in 2013 by Michael Martelli Jr and Brad Jester in the warehouse of Federal Fruit and Produce, the wholesaler Martelli's father owned and ran until it closed that same year. The company supplies restaurants, grocery stores and households across greater Denver, works directly with Colorado farmers in season and buys nationally out of season. It carries conventional produce, a small organic line and specialty items, and runs a weekly assortment box.

  • Opened 2013 in the old Federal Fruit and Produce warehouse
  • Works directly with Colorado farmers in season
  • Weekly produce assortment box since 2013
  • Annual wine grape ordering program

Serves: Restaurants, Grocery stores, Families

Address
1890 E 58th Ave, Denver, CO, 80216
Phone
(303) 292-1303
Visit 5280produce.com

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Fresh Guys

Local specialistElyria SwanseaEst. 2007

A locally owned wholesale produce supplier trading since 2007 from the same East 58th Avenue warehouse as 5280 Produce. It works with growers and farms across Colorado and sells to Denver restaurants, and its own site lists the Michelin starred kitchens it supplies by name, each with a link to that restaurant's reservation page. Ordering and payment are both online. It publishes no delivery, pickup or walk-in terms.

  • Trading since 2007
  • Works with local growers and farms across the state
  • Names its Michelin starred restaurant customers
  • Online ordering and online payment

Serves: Denver area restaurants

Address
1890 E 58th Avenue, Denver, CO, 80216
Phone
(720) 519-5519
Visit thefreshguys.com

Fresh Start Produce Too

Local specialistMontbelloEst. 2012

A wholesale produce supplier serving the Denver metro and the Front Range since 2012. It sells to restaurants, markets, institutions, food delivery companies, caterers, farmers market stallholders and food trucks, sources directly from Colorado farms in season and buys from other growing regions the rest of the year. Beyond bulk it offers repack sizes and a full fresh cut vegetable line, and it makes a point of saying there are no call centers and no order takers.

  • Serving the Front Range since 2012
  • Sources directly from Colorado farmers in season
  • Bulk, repack sizes and fresh cut vegetables
  • No call centers and no order takers, in its own words

Serves: Restaurants, Markets, Institutions, Food delivery companies, Catering companies, Food trucks

Address
5350 Joliet Street Unit #2, Denver, CO, 80239
Phone
(720) 726-5039
Delivers
Denver metro and the Front Range of Colorado
Visit freshstartproducetoo.com

Mrs. Condie's Salad Company

Local specialistDenargo MarketEst. 1950

Founded in 1950 and still trading on Denargo Street across from Coors Field, this is by its own account the only produce business left from the early days of the Denargo Market. It buys direct from farmers and processes fresh cut fruit and vegetables and pre-packaged produce for foodservice companies, supermarket chains, corner stores and restaurants around Denver. It imported a Dofra FoodTec onion peeler from the Netherlands that peels 50 lb of onions a minute, and a Vanmark peeler for carrots, beets, turnips, parsnips, rutabaga and potatoes.

  • Founded 1950, and says it is the last produce business from the early Denargo Market
  • Fresh cut fruit and vegetable processing
  • Buys directly from farmers
  • Splits offered on select items on request

Serves: Food service companies, Supermarket chains, Corner stores, Restaurants

Address
3225 Denargo St, Denver, CO, 80216
Phone
(303) 293-2429
Delivers
The Denver area and its surrounding cities
Visit mrscondiessaladcompany.com

Coosemans-Denver

Local specialistMontbelloEst. 1990

A specialty produce house, family owned and operated since 1990, serving the Rocky Mountain region with fresh herbs, exotic fruits, baby vegetables, wild mushrooms, edible flowers, heirloom tomatoes, fingerling potatoes and microgreens, organic and conventional. It sells chef selected herb blends packed by dish, from pho and pizza to salmon and steak, and markets a family of fresh herb labels that chefs ask for by name.

  • Family owned and operated since 1990
  • Wild mushrooms, edible flowers and microgreens
  • Chef selected herb blends packed by dish
  • Serves the Rocky Mountain region

Named programs

CoosemansColorado Specialty FarmsDuncan Family FarmsOsage GardensHerbs Made EasyLucinda's

Serves: Professional chefs, Home cooks

Address
5135 Peoria St, Denver, CO, 80239
Phone
(303) 371-3130
Delivers
The Rocky Mountain region
Visit coosemansdenver.com

Big Sky Trading

Local specialistMontbelloEst. 2003

A produce distributor and freight operator that started in 2003 with one man and a delivery truck. It sources conventional and organic produce from California, Idaho, Mexico, Texas and Washington for delivery into Colorado, keeps trucks loading in those regions, and adds refrigerated and dry storage, cross docking and less-than-truckload freight. Its own box trucks run within a hundred mile radius of Denver.

  • Produce distributor since 2003
  • Sources from California, Idaho, Mexico, Texas and Washington
  • Refrigerated and dry storage, plus cross docking
  • Freight alongside produce
Address
5301 Peoria St. Unit C2, Denver, CO, 80239
Phone
(303) 292-2050
Delivers
Within a hundred mile radius of Denver
Visit bigskydenver.com

Tucci Fresh Produce

Local specialistElyria Swansea

A Denver wholesaler carrying a full line of conventional and organic fruit and vegetables, on a local first sourcing model that names four Colorado growing regions: the Front Range, the Western Slope, the San Luis Valley and Rocky Ford. It serves restaurants, retailers, school districts, healthcare, hospitality and foodservice across the Rocky Mountain region, takes orders through its own online storefront, and offers both pickup and delivery.

  • Local first sourcing from four named Colorado growing regions
  • Conventional and organic full line
  • Online ordering storefront
  • Serves school districts and healthcare as well as restaurants

Serves: Restaurants, Retailers, School districts, Healthcare facilities, Hospitality, Foodservice operations

Address
850 E 50th Ave, Denver, CO, 80216
Phone
(303) 292-1994
Delivers
The Rocky Mountain region
Visit tuccifresh.onreserva.com

FreshPoint Denver

Regional distributorGlobevilleEst. 1980

Founded in 1980 as J, D, S & R and now the produce arm of Sysco, FreshPoint Denver serves the Colorado Front Range from a 112,500 square foot refrigerated warehouse on Bannock Street. It runs 29 refrigerated trucks, five refrigerated tractor trailers and a refrigerated van, keeps an unbroken cold chain from a refrigerated receiving dock, and publishes its coverage as a county map rather than a radius. It shares its street address with another distributor on this page, which is two companies at one door rather than a duplicate.

  • Founded 1980 as J, D, S & R
  • 112,500 square foot refrigerated warehouse
  • 35 refrigerated vehicles
  • Publishes its coverage area county by county

Serves: Chefs, Foodservice operators on the Colorado Front Range

Address
5151 Bannock Street, Denver, CO, 80216
Phone
(303) 382-1700
Delivers
The Colorado Front Range region
Visit freshpoint.com

What Chefs Want (Colorado)

Regional distributorGlobeville

The Colorado branch of Creation Gardens, a Louisville distributor trading as What Chefs Want, which reached Denver by buying three local businesses: Fresh Pack Produce, Growers Organic Produce and Northeast Seafood, all named on its own timeline. It covers Denver, Colorado Springs, Boulder and Grand Junction with six day delivery, no minimum order size and split cases, and publishes a Colorado Local Foods Guide for operators working to a local sourcing target. It publishes no phone number against the Colorado address.

  • Colorado branch of Creation Gardens of Louisville
  • Bought Fresh Pack Produce and Growers Organic of Denver, by its own timeline
  • Six day delivery in most markets
  • No minimum order size and split cases

Serves: Chefs, Restaurants, Culinary professionals

Address
5151 Bannock St. #12, Denver, CO, 80216
Delivers
Denver, Colorado Springs, Boulder and Grand Junction
Visit whatchefswant.com

Sysco Denver

National broadlineCentral Park

The Denver operating company of the largest foodservice distributor in the country, and before 1982 an independent called Nobel Food Service Co, founded by Ferdinand Knoebel in the early 1900s and later run by his son Fritz. It moved to a 525,000 square foot building in central Denver in 2006, carries about 16,000 items for more than 5,000 customers, and serves most of Colorado plus parts of Wyoming, Nebraska and Kansas. Its produce claim on this page is corporate wording rather than Denver-specific copy.

  • Was Nobel Food Service Co before joining Sysco in 1982
  • 525,000 square foot facility since 2006
  • About 16,000 items for more than 5,000 customers
  • Serves Colorado plus parts of Wyoming, Nebraska and Kansas

Serves: Restaurants, Healthcare facilities, Educational facilities, Lodging establishments, Entertainment venues

Address
5000 Beeler Street, Denver, CO, 80238
Phone
(303) 585-2000
Delivers
Most of Colorado, and parts of Wyoming, Nebraska and Kansas
Visit sysco.com

Shamrock Foodservice Warehouse

Cash and carryAthmar Park

A 30,000 square foot cash and carry warehouse that opened in April 2015 on the southwest corner of I-25 and Alameda, open to the public with no membership required. It stocks meat, seafood, fresh produce and dairy alongside disposables and kitchen supplies, and says hundreds of its items are Colorado grown or manufactured. A second Colorado store trades in Aurora on South Havana Street.

  • Opened April 2015, 30,000 square feet
  • Open to the public, no membership required
  • Hundreds of Colorado grown or manufactured items
  • Second Colorado store in Aurora

Serves: Restaurants, The public

Address
460 South Lipan Street, Denver, CO, 80223
Phone
(303) 722-7688
Visit shamrockfsw.com

UNFI

National broadlineGateway Park

The Rocky Mountain distribution center of the largest wholesale distributor of natural and organic food in North America, in the Gateway Park area of Aurora near I-70 and the airport corridor. UNFI announced the site in September 2012 as a 535,000 square foot replacement for four existing Denver facilities, due to open in summer 2013. Its fresh range covers produce, cheese, specialty, meat, seafood, floral, bakery and deli. The address comes from its own distribution center list rather than from a Colorado page.

  • 535,000 square feet, announced 2012 to replace four Denver sites
  • Gateway Park, near I-70 and the airport corridor
  • Fresh range includes produce, cheese and specialty
  • Natural, organic and conventional

Serves: Retailers

Address
17901 East 40th Avenue, Aurora, CO, 80011
Phone
(303) 360-8459
Visit unfi.com

Mountain Food

Regional distributorAurora

A wholesale distributor in Aurora carrying fresh produce, frozen foods and specialty and foodservice items for restaurants and grocers in Colorado and the surrounding states. It is a subsidiary of HF Foods Group, a Nasdaq listed distributor to specialty and international restaurants headquartered in Las Vegas. Mountain Food publishes no website of its own, so everything here comes from its parent's page about it.

  • Fresh produce, frozen and specialty lines
  • Serves Colorado and surrounding states
  • A subsidiary of HF Foods Group of Las Vegas
  • Publishes no website of its own

Serves: Restaurants, Grocers in Colorado and surrounding states

Address
3333 Moline St, Aurora, CO, 80010
Phone
(303) 576-8288
Delivers
Colorado and surrounding states
Visit hffoodsgroup.com

Two markets opened in 1939 and neither one survived

Denver's produce trade had been centered on a Cherry Creek market for nearly forty years. A 1938 plan to move it to Jerome Park failed because the site was judged inaccessible to northern Colorado growers, so two rail-side sites were built instead. It was believed the city could support only one, and both became successful.

The Wazee Market cost a million dollars and ran between 9th and 13th Streets along Wazee Street: four produce buildings holding 27 store units, four sheds with 248 growers' stalls, and what was hailed at the time as the most modern banana handling plant in the country. It opened on Colorado Day, 1 August 1939, and five railroad systems served it. The Denver Urban Renewal Authority bought the five-block site for 2.7 million dollars in 1974 and it was demolished shortly afterwards.

Denargo Market was built by the Growers' Market Association on thirty acres at 29th and Broadway, with 504 growers' stalls, an administration building, a refrigeration plant, a restaurant and its own barber shop. On 7 July 1971 a four-alarm fire devastated it. The site is now a redevelopment project.

One business is still there. A fresh-cut processor founded in 1950 trades on Denargo Street across from Coors Field and says on its own site that it is the only remaining produce business from the early Denargo Market days. It is the single thread running from that market to this list.

SupplierProduceFruitVegetablesOrganicSpecialtySeafoodLocally grownBeefDairyDry goodsTomatoesHerbsFresh cutDisposablesDeliversWalk-in counterSame-day availableShips nationally
Restaurant Depot Denver
Colo-Pac Produce
Alpine Summit Sales
5280 Produce
Fresh Guys
Fresh Start Produce Too
Mrs. Condie's Salad Company
Coosemans-Denver
Big Sky Trading
Tucci Fresh Produce
FreshPoint Denver
What Chefs Want (Colorado)
Sysco Denver
Shamrock Foodservice Warehouse
UNFI
Mountain Food

A blank cell means the company does not list that line on its own site, not that it cannot get it. Most of these houses will source outside their published range for an account they want. Columns showing only one supplier are hidden to keep the grid readable.

There is no federal price report for this city

USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service publishes wholesale market reports for Asheville, Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Columbia, Detroit, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia and Raleigh. Denver is not on that list, and six of the other cities in this directory are.

Be careful what you conclude from that, because we were. It does not mean Denver has no wholesale produce trade, which would be plainly false given the sixteen companies below. It means there is no published federal benchmark price for this market, so a Denver buyer checking whether a quote is reasonable has no equivalent of the daily terminal report a Philadelphia or Los Angeles buyer can pull up.

In place of a benchmark you have the suppliers themselves, and they are unusually varied in what they will tell you. Several publish their sourcing regions by name. One publishes its coverage as a county map. One publishes a hundred-mile radius. Comparing those statements is the closest thing to price discovery this market offers, and it is a good argument for keeping two accounts even where you only order from one.

Two industrial ZIP codes, and one address with two supply chains in it

The trade reassembled into two industrial pockets on the north and northeast sides. Elyria Swansea and the streets around East 58th Avenue hold one cluster, and Montbello around Peoria and 47th holds the other. Between them they carry most of this list.

The closest thing Denver has to a market building is 5151 Bannock Street, and what is interesting about it is who is inside. Sysco's produce arm publishes that address. So does the Colorado branch of a Louisville distributor, at suite 12 of the same building. Two rival supply chains, one door, both verified from their own sites.

The same building illustrates a second thing a buyer should know about this market: the shortlist is shorter than it looks. That Louisville company's own timeline records buying three Denver businesses, two of them produce houses. One of those brands now redirects to the buyer's website, and the other's domain has lapsed entirely and today resolves to an overseas gambling site, which is worth mentioning only because it means an operator searching for a supplier they remember will not find a working page.

So an operator who keeps FreshPoint and What Chefs Want as two options is shopping Sysco against Creation Gardens, from one address. And an operator who remembers either of the two acquired produce houses as a separate second option is remembering one supplier, not two.

The shape of Denver's supplier base

Counted from the 16 listings above. Change the view, then narrow by supplier type to see how the mix shifts.

Produce15
Fruit9
Vegetables9
Organic7
Specialty7
Locally grown3
Seafood3
Beef2
Dairy2
Disposables2
Dry goods2
Fresh cut2
Herbs2
Tomatoes2
Cheese1
Frozen1
Gourmet1
Microgreens1
Mushrooms1
Onions1
Potatoes1
Roots and tubers1
Spirits1
Wine1

16 suppliers in view. Bars count suppliers carrying each product line, so they add up to more than 16: most suppliers carry several.

Half of these suppliers publish no way to buy from them

This is the most striking thing in the data once the history is set aside. Six of the sixteen companies here state no delivery, no pickup and no walk-in option anywhere on their own sites. That is not a regex that came up empty: each capture was opened and read.

It does not mean they will not deliver. It means the question is unanswered until you call, which in a metro with no market hall and no price report is one more thing you cannot look up. Where a company does say, the listing carries it.

The exceptions are worth knowing. One firm runs a year round indoor produce market open to the public and makes no delivery claim at all, which is the reverse of the usual pattern. One includes the cost of delivery in every order and separately runs a pick-up service aimed at farmers market stallholders and event caterers, opening at six in the morning. Two cash and carry warehouses are open to walk-in trade, one of them with no membership required.

The local sourcing question has better answers. Several suppliers name Colorado growing regions directly, one listing the Front Range, the Western Slope, the San Luis Valley and Rocky Ford, and several say they buy from Colorado farms in season and nationally the rest of the year. Given the length of the season here, that seasonal split is the honest version and it is the one most of these companies publish.

Where these rows came from, and who is not here

Fifteen rows are written from the company's own website. One is written from its corporate parent's page about it, because that company publishes no site of its own that eight search variants surfaced, and its card says so.

One large broadliner is deliberately absent and the reason is a defect this site has shipped before. Its Denver page is strong on everything except produce: the only occurrences of the word in its own copy are image alt text and one line inside a customer review. A distributor of that size almost certainly sells produce in Denver. Its own page does not say so, and an image filename is not a claim, so it is not here. We made exactly this mistake once on a Baltimore listing and fixed it, which is why it is checked now.

Eleven further Denver produce names surfaced and failed verification for stated reasons. Five publish no website at all, appearing in a Yellow Pages category and nowhere else. One has lost its domain to a gambling operator. Those are findings rather than gaps in the research, and they are the reason this page carries sixteen rather than twenty-seven.

Two rows share a street address and are not a duplicate: one company opened in 2013 in the warehouse of a wholesaler that closed that year, and another has traded from the same building since 2007. Two more companies share the Bannock Street address described above. In a city whose market halls are gone, shared industrial addresses are how this trade is arranged.

Unfiltered

What people say about buying produce in Denver

24 comments quoted verbatim from public threads, researched specifically for this city rather than reused from elsewhere on the site.

r/denverfood11 points
Just a couple I haven't seen yet: Mile High Flea Market is probably almost half produce stalls, and is especially good for fruits, beans, peppers, and other Latin Americanish produce. And I try to get out to Brighton at least a couple times a year for Palombo Market and Lulu's Farm. Palombo is small, but it's especially good for getting produce in bulk if you do any kind of preserving/stocking up. They're both regular stores with regular hours.
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r/denverfood29 points
I go to Pacific Ocean Marketplace, huge range of fresh produce from your standard like bell peppers and zucchini to more exotic stuff like lychees. They are not local or organic focused like Sprouts, Natural Grocers, Whole Foods etc, but they are fresh, and really cheap/great selection on expensive produce like herbs and mushrooms. I also go to Sprouts for whatever I can’t get at POM especially if I need non-produce pantry items etc.
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r/Denver80 points
Hmart is definitely my go to. Bulk proteins and household stuff at Costco, produce and other things at Hmart.
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r/denverfood23 points
Let me tell you one thing - Costco bell peppers ain’t it. Every time we buy them at least two are rotten on the inside :/ h mart off Parker and king soopers (if you don’t mind a few wrinkly ones) have been more consistent
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r/denverfood13 points
GW Supermarket (formerly Pacific Ocean Market) is another asian grocery store with a very solid produce section. i’ve been going there a lot lately because I live pretty far from H Mart, sadly
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r/Denver15 points
Sprouts! Way cheaper than King Soopers for produce. Also Pacific Ocean Marketplace is excellent for all things Asian, and has some good cheap produce as well
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Pulled from r/Denver, r/denverfood and r/DenverGardener plus cooking threads whose titles name the metro, collected in September 2026 and quoted unedited. The Denver omelette and the Denver steak are this city's version of the NY strip trap, which is why no comment here was matched on its body text. Its own corpus: no comment here appears on any other page of this site. Comments are unedited and link back to the original thread. They are individual experiences, not evidence about any distributor in general, and we deliberately do not aggregate them into a score.

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Questions

Produce distributors in Denver: common questions

How many produce distributors are there in Denver?

We verified 16, fifteen from the company's own website and one from its corporate parent's page. Eleven further names surfaced and failed verification, five of them because they publish no website at all. That is not the number in the metro, which nobody publishes; it is the number whose details we could read from a source and stand behind.

Is there a wholesale produce market in Denver?

Not the way Chicago or Philadelphia has one. Denver built two in 1939, the Wazee Market and Denargo Market. Denargo was devastated by a four-alarm fire on 7 July 1971 and Wazee was bought by the Denver Urban Renewal Authority in 1974 and demolished. The trade sits in industrial parks now, mostly in two pockets on the north and northeast sides.

Why is there no USDA price report for Denver produce?

We do not know why, and nothing we captured says. What is verifiable is that USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service publishes wholesale market reports for twelve cities and Denver is not among them, while six other cities in this directory are. The practical effect is that there is no published federal benchmark to check a Denver quote against.

Do Denver produce distributors deliver?

Some say so and many say nothing at all. Six of the sixteen companies here publish no delivery, pickup or walk-in terms anywhere on their own sites, which we confirmed by reading each capture rather than by a search that came up empty. Where a supplier does publish how you can buy, it is on its listing. Otherwise it is a question for the first phone call.

Can I buy produce in Denver without a wholesale account?

Yes, in a few places. One distributor runs a year round indoor produce market that is open to the public. Two cash and carry warehouses take walk-in trade, one of them explicitly with no membership required and stocking produce alongside meat, seafood and dairy. One company runs a pick-up service aimed at farmers market stallholders and event caterers, and opens at six in the morning.

Which Denver suppliers carry Colorado grown produce?

Several name it directly. One publishes a local-first sourcing model naming the Front Range, the Western Slope, the San Luis Valley and Rocky Ford. Others say they work with Colorado farmers in season and buy nationally out of season, which given the length of the season here is the honest framing. One cash and carry says hundreds of its items are Colorado grown or manufactured.

Are any Denver produce distributors owned by the same company?

Yes, and it shortens the shortlist. One supplier here is Sysco's produce arm. Another is the Colorado branch of a Louisville distributor whose own timeline records buying three Denver businesses, two of them produce houses. Both publish the same street address, in different suites. An operator holding those two as separate options is shopping two national groups from one building.

How were these Denver produce listings verified?

Each was read off the company's own website, or in one case its corporate parent's page, and captured to file in September 2026. Where a company publishes no delivery terms, no phone or no address, the field is empty because it published none. One large broadliner was left off because the only mentions of produce in its own Denver copy are image alt text and a customer review. No distributor paid to be listed.