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Produce distributors in Baltimore

Maryland legislated its produce trade out of Baltimore in 1967 and finished the job in 1976. Most of the suppliers below are tenants of the state-owned market at Jessup that replaced it, and roughly half of them publish nothing about themselves beyond a unit number and a phone. This page says who is there and what can actually be verified.

  • 22 suppliers, verified against company websites or the Maryland Food Center Authority's own tenant directory in September 2026.
  • Eight listings come from the state market's directory because those merchants publish nothing themselves. Those rows are thin on purpose and say so.
  • No paid placements and no rankings. Filter by what they carry, who they sell to and how you can buy.
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22
Suppliers listed
Each verified against its own website
18
Independent houses
Local specialists and regional distributors
2
Walk-in options
Cash and carry, so no delivery minimum
1910
Oldest still trading
Belair Produce

Every produce distributor we verified in Baltimore

Filter by what they carry, how the business is set up, who they sell to, how you can buy, and where they are. 22 of 22 publish a phone number and 21 publish a street address; where a company does not, the field is left out rather than filled in.

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Saval Foodservice

Regional distributorElkridgeEst. 1932

Harry Saval founded the company in 1932 from the back of a Baltimore warehouse to produce and distribute deli products. Four generations on it runs a broadline catalogue out of Elkridge and describes itself as the largest locally based, independently owned broadline foodservice distributor in Maryland. It is unusual in publishing named supplier pages for the local houses it buys from, and its seafood page names nine, including Congressional Seafood in Jessup, which is listed on this site in its own right. Its bakery supplier page files H&S Bakery of Baltimore under its own Bakery category, so the metro's largest independent broadline names the metro's largest baker as a supplier. Its produce division trades as 1932 Specialty Produce & Meat and says it sources directly from daily inbound deliveries at the Jessup produce market. Its coffee comes from Shore Bird Roasters of Jessup, which Saval describes as a local coffee companion and stocks in foodservice pack sizes, and which has no website of its own.

  • Founded 1932, now in its fourth generation
  • Describes itself as Maryland's largest locally based independent broadline
  • Publishes named pages for the local suppliers it buys from

Serves: Foodservice operators

Address
6740 Dorsey Road, Elkridge, MD, 21075
Phone
(410) 379-5100
Visit savalfoods.com

Sysco Baltimore

National broadlineJessup

The Baltimore operating company of the largest foodservice distributor in the United States, carrying protein, produce, dairy and dry goods alongside every other category a kitchen buys. It is the default first quote in this market and the benchmark most of the specialists on this page are priced against. The operation is named for Baltimore and sits in Jessup, which is Howard County, a good illustration of how little the city line means to this trade. Its Baltimore company holds a Maryland certificate on the FDA shellfish shippers list, which is firmer evidence of a local seafood line than anything on its own Baltimore page.

  • Every category in one delivery
  • The price benchmark the specialists are quoted against
  • Named for Baltimore, operating from Jessup in Howard County

Serves: Restaurants, Institutions

Address
8000 Dorsey Run Road, Jessup, MD, 20794
Phone
(410) 799-7000
Visit sysco.com

Restaurant Depot Baltimore

Cash and carryHalethorpe

A members-only cash and carry warehouse on Annapolis Road, with a second Baltimore-area branch at White Marsh. There is no delivery and no minimum order: you drive there, load a trolley and pay. It is the fallback when a delivery has been short and service is that afternoon. Both Baltimore-area branches are certified on the FDA Maryland shellfish shippers list, and the warehouse runs fresh and frozen seafood and a produce department alongside the meat counter.

  • Two Baltimore-area warehouses, Annapolis Road and White Marsh
  • No delivery and no order minimum
  • Members only, trade accounts

Serves: Restaurants, Caterers

Address
3405 Annapolis Road, Baltimore, MD, 21227
Phone
(410) 354-1500
Visit restaurantdepot.com

Capital Seaboard

Regional distributorJessup

A seafood and produce house whose founding family signed one of the first leases in what became the Maryland wholesale produce market in the early 1970s. It outgrew the market in 2004 and again in 2015, and now works from 160,000 square feet on Assateague Drive at the edge of the food centre, delivering seafood, produce and dairy five days a week on its own refrigerated fleet. The Chefs' Warehouse acquired substantially all of its assets in December 2021 and it still trades under its own name.

  • 160,000 sq ft on the edge of the Maryland Food Center
  • Seafood, produce and dairy five days a week on its own fleet
  • Owned by The Chefs' Warehouse (NASDAQ: CHEF) since December 2021

Serves: Food service operations, Restaurants

Address
7540 Assateague Drive, Jessup, MD, 20794
Phone
(443) 755-1733
Delivers
The Mid-Atlantic, including Baltimore, Washington DC and Virginia
Visit capitalseaboard.com

Mister Fish

Local specialistEst. 1989

A family wholesale house serving Baltimore since 1989 with seafood, produce and dairy on one truck, delivering six days a week with emergency deliveries on Sundays. It carries fresh crab meat in season from Maryland, Louisiana, North Carolina, Texas, Mexico and Venezuela alongside pasteurised blue, red and tri, and works with oystermen and aquaculture operations for shucked and in-shell oysters. It publishes no street address on its site, so none is shown here.

  • Serving Baltimore since 1989
  • Seafood, produce and dairy on one delivery
  • Six-day delivery plus Sunday emergency deliveries

Serves: Restaurants, Country clubs, Food service locations

Address
Baltimore, MD
Phone
(410) 288-2722
Delivers
The greater Baltimore area, including Ocean City and Washington DC
Visit misterfishinc.com

Belair Produce

Regional distributorHanoverEst. 1910

Began in 1910 as Belair Market, a produce stand in downtown Baltimore run by Maurice Berman, went wholesale and took the name Belair Produce in 1961. It is fourth-generation family owned and supplies restaurants, hospitals, clubs, catering facilities, convention centres and schools across the Mid-Atlantic, with a specialty division trading as Watermark Foods.

  • Started as a downtown Baltimore produce stand in 1910
  • Fourth generation, family owned
  • Specialty division trading as Watermark Foods

Serves: Restaurants, Hospitals, Clubs, Catering, Convention centres, Schools

Address
7226 Parkway Drive, Hanover, MD, 21076
Phone
(410) 782-8000
Delivers
The Mid-Atlantic
Visit belairproduce.com

B Green Wholesale

Cash and carryCarroll-CamdenEst. 1915

Established in 1915 and the only walk-in cash and carry house on this page, holding over 30,000 products in stock every day. Members either take delivery or come in and pick their own from fresh meat and seafood, dairy, fresh produce, foodservice supplies and tobacco. It publishes store hours rather than delivery windows, which tells you which kind of supplier it is.

  • Established 1915, cash and carry as well as delivery
  • Over 30,000 products in stock every day
  • Publishes store opening hours rather than delivery windows

Serves: Members, Foodservice operators

Address
1300 South Monroe Street, Baltimore, MD, 21230
Phone
(410) 539-6134
Visit bgreenco.com

The Class Produce Group

Regional distributorJessupEst. 1936

A family-owned wholesaler serving the Mid-Atlantic since 1936, which states plainly that it is a wholesale company and not a grower. It runs two warehouses on one Jessup campus, 150,000 square feet plus a 60,000 square foot fresh-cut facility, and a refrigerated fleet running seven days a week over a radius of more than 500 miles.

  • Serving the Mid-Atlantic since 1936
  • 150,000 sq ft plus a 60,000 sq ft fresh-cut plant
  • Says in its own words that it is a wholesaler and not a grower

Serves: Foodservice, Retail

Address
8477 Dorsey Run Road, Jessup, MD, 20794
Phone
(410) 799-5700
Delivers
Over a 500-mile radius from Jessup
Visit classproduce.com

Kousouris Bros. Wholesale Produce

Local specialistHighlandtownEst. 1929

One of only two produce wholesalers left inside Baltimore City, supplying the area since 1929 from South Lakewood Avenue. It stocks over 200 items with access to more than 500 specialty items on 24 to 48 hours notice and delivers six days a week. Its published hours run from 7am to 1pm, Monday to Saturday, which is a trade counter's day rather than a retailer's.

  • Supplying Baltimore since 1929
  • Over 200 items stocked, 500 more on 24 to 48 hours notice
  • One of two produce wholesalers still inside the city line

Serves: Restaurants, Foodservice

Address
934 South Lakewood Avenue, Baltimore, MD, 21224
Phone
(410) 675-4320
Visit kousourisbros.com

Edward G. Rahll & Sons

Regional distributorMaryland Wholesale Produce Market

Started in the early 1950s by Edward Rahll Sr., moved to Pulaski Highway in 1960 and again in 1976 when the Maryland Wholesale Produce Market was built at Jessup, which makes its own history a summary of the trade's. It now holds 12 units on the market, over 35,000 square feet of refrigerated space and roughly a tenth of the floor, and calls itself one of the East Coast's largest wholesalers of watermelons. Its warehouse is open to the public during business hours.

  • Moved with the trade: downtown, Pulaski Highway 1960, Jessup 1976
  • 12 units and about a tenth of the market's floor space
  • One of the East Coast's largest watermelon wholesalers, in its own words

Serves: Foodservice, Retail, Public

Address
7460 Conowingo Avenue, Jessup, MD, 20794
Phone
(410) 799-3800
Delivers
Foodservice delivery to Howard and Harford County
Visit rahllproduce.com

Pete Pappas & Sons

Regional distributorJessupEst. 1942

A grower, packer, shipper and distributor in one business, family owned since 1942 across four generations of the Pappas family, and vertically integrated with Smoky Mountain Family Farms. It is the exclusive East Coast source for Tasti-Lee tomatoes, which is the sort of single-variety exclusivity that decides a menu rather than a price list.

  • Grower, packer, shipper and distributor rather than only a distributor
  • Family owned since 1942, four generations
  • Exclusive East Coast source for Tasti-Lee tomatoes

Serves: Foodservice, Retail

Address
7805 Rappahannock Avenue, Unit 1, Jessup, MD, 20794
Phone
(443) 296-7880
Delivers
The East Coast
Visit petepappasinc.com

OFV Wholesale Distribution

Local specialistMaryland Wholesale Produce MarketEst. 2022

The youngest company on this page, trading since 2022 from two units on the Jessup market, and one of very few produce wholesalers anywhere in this directory that publishes actual case prices on its own website rather than asking you to call. Its own header still says the site is under construction, which is worth knowing before relying on those prices.

  • Publishes case prices openly rather than quoting on request
  • Two units on the Maryland Wholesale Produce Market
  • Its own site is still marked under construction

Serves: Foodservice, Retail

Address
7470 Conowingo Avenue, Suites 89 and 91, Jessup, MD, 20794
Phone
(410) 904-5967
Visit ofvwholesale.com

Coosemans DC

Regional distributorMaryland Wholesale Produce Market

The Jessup branch of the Coosemans group, which the market directory describes as having been at the forefront of the specialty produce business for more than twenty years, working as growers, shippers, brokers, importers and exporters. The group's own home page blocks automated access, so this listing is written from its locations page and the market directory.

  • Specialty produce rather than volume lines
  • Part of the Coosemans group of companies
  • Group home page blocks capture, so sourced from the locations page and the market

Serves: Foodservice, Specialty retail

Address
7460 Conowingo Avenue, Unit 107, Jessup, MD, 20794
Phone
(410) 799-0980
Visit coosemans.com

FreshPoint Mid-Atlantic

National broadlineLaurelEst. 1992

The largest produce operation serving this metro, and four familiar local names in one company. Its own page says it was formerly known as The Coastal Companies, was founded in 1992 and was acquired by Sysco in 2022, and its site still lists Coastal Sunbelt and Lancaster as legacy locations. It runs 450,000 square feet of refrigerated space across two facilities with over 2,000 SKUs. Anyone quoting it against Sysco Baltimore is quoting one parent company twice.

  • Formerly The Coastal Companies, acquired by Sysco in 2022
  • Coastal Sunbelt, Lancaster, East Coast Fresh and Hearn Kirkwood are all this company
  • 450,000 sq ft of refrigerated space across two facilities

Serves: Restaurants, Foodservice

Address
9001 Whiskey Bottom Road, Laurel, MD, 20723
Phone
(410) 799-8000
Delivers
The Mid-Atlantic
Visit freshpoint.com

Tony Vitrano Co.

Regional distributorMaryland Wholesale Produce MarketEst. 1932

The largest tenant of the Maryland Wholesale Produce Market by unit count, holding 11 of its units, and a Baltimore produce name since 1932. Its website is no longer live: the domain the market lists is a parked page, so nothing here comes from the company itself. The listing rests on the Maryland Food Center Authority's own tenant directory and on a Produce News profile from September 2024.

  • 11 units, more than any other tenant of the Jessup market
  • A Baltimore produce name since 1932
  • Its domain is parked, so no company site could be read
Address
7460 Conowingo Avenue, Jessup, MD, 20794
Phone
(410) 799-7444

HK Produce

Regional distributorMaryland Wholesale Produce Market

A six-unit tenant of the Jessup market whose directory entry says it carries hundreds of kinds of seasonal fruit and vegetables including eggplants, yams and mushrooms, sourced from farms in California, Florida, Honduras and Korea and a wider network of growers. The website the market publishes for it refuses connections, so this listing comes from the market directory alone.

  • Six units on the Maryland Wholesale Produce Market
  • Sources from California, Florida, Honduras and Korea
  • Its published website refuses connections
Address
7460 Conowingo Avenue, Jessup, MD, 20794
Phone
(410) 799-0041

AJ Fava Produce Company

Local specialistMaryland Wholesale Produce Market

A four-unit tenant of the Jessup market specialising in avocados, potatoes, onions and mangos, and one of the few merchants there that publishes a service rather than only a product list: it runs ripening rooms and offers ripening for a range of products. Listed from the Maryland Food Center Authority's directory, which is the only source it publishes through.

  • Specialises in avocados, potatoes, onions and mangos
  • Runs its own ripening rooms and offers ripening as a service
  • Four units on the Maryland Wholesale Produce Market
Address
7460 Conowingo Avenue, Jessup, MD, 20794
Phone
(410) 799-5500

Agri Mex Produce

Local specialistMaryland Wholesale Produce Market

A two-unit tenant of the Jessup market, also trading as Ortiz & Tapia Fresh Produce, carrying a range that runs from pineapple, guava, mangoes and papayas to onions, habanero peppers, cilantro, chayote and serrano peppers. That list is the clearest statement on the market of a supplier built around a specific kitchen rather than a general one. Listed from the market authority's own directory.

  • Also trades as Ortiz & Tapia Fresh Produce
  • Range built around Latin American kitchens rather than general lines
  • Two units on the Maryland Wholesale Produce Market
Address
7460 Conowingo Avenue, Jessup, MD, 20794
Phone
(410) 799-1355

Rainbow Food and Produce

Local specialistMaryland Wholesale Produce Market

A two-unit tenant of the Jessup market carrying a full line of fruit alongside dry and refrigerated items, which makes it one of the few merchants there selling outside fresh produce at all. Its entire published description is one sentence in the Maryland Food Center Authority's directory, and that is the only source for this listing.

  • Carries dry and refrigerated goods as well as fruit
  • Two units on the Maryland Wholesale Produce Market
  • Publishes nothing beyond its market directory entry
Address
7460 Conowingo Avenue, Jessup, MD, 20794
Phone
(410) 245-0655

Pacific Coast Produce

Local specialistMaryland Wholesale Produce Market

A three-unit tenant of the Jessup market. Produce Business reported in June 2019 that it sells green beans, broccoli, mushrooms, carrots and bell peppers to Chinese restaurants and area grocery stores, which is the only published account of what it actually does. It is listed from the market directory and that trade report; it publishes no site of its own.

  • Reported to supply Chinese restaurants and area grocery stores
  • Three units on the Maryland Wholesale Produce Market
  • Publishes no website of its own
Address
7460 Conowingo Avenue, Jessup, MD, 20794
Phone
(804) 677-3291

Super Fresh Produce

Local specialistMaryland Wholesale Produce Market

A five-unit tenant of the Jessup market, also trading as Tropical Foods. The Maryland Food Center Authority publishes its units and phone number and no description at all, so this listing carries nothing about what it stocks. That is the honest state of the record for roughly half the merchants on this market.

  • Five units on the Maryland Wholesale Produce Market
  • Also trades as Tropical Foods
  • The market publishes no description of what it stocks
Address
7460 Conowingo Avenue, Jessup, MD, 20794
Phone
(410) 799-1120

Mario Produce

Local specialistMaryland Wholesale Produce Market

A seven-unit tenant of the Jessup market, one of the larger holdings on the floor, listed by the Maryland Food Center Authority with a unit list and a phone number and no description. Nothing else about the business is published anywhere we could capture.

  • Seven units on the Maryland Wholesale Produce Market
  • One of the larger holdings on the market floor
  • The market publishes no description of what it stocks
Address
7460 Conowingo Avenue, Jessup, MD, 20794
Phone
(443) 354-3837

The state passed a law in 1967 to move this trade out of the city

Baltimore's produce wholesalers used to be scattered through the city, and the state decided that was the problem. The General Assembly authorised the Greater Baltimore Consolidated Wholesale Food Market Authority in 1967, to establish and run a consolidated food centre for the region. In 1976 the Maryland Wholesale Produce Market began operating on a 400-acre site at Jessup, in Howard County, with 333,000 square feet of terminal space.

The executive director of the Food Center Authority has explained the reasoning in plain terms: it had become a very inefficient way for grocery chains and mom-and-pop stores to buy produce, because the wholesalers were scattered throughout the city. Jessup was picked because it sat halfway between Baltimore and Washington, which were then two separate economic hubs and have since become one corridor with the market in the middle of it.

Two companies on this page tell the same three-stop story on their own websites, independently of each other and of the state. The Class Produce Group says William Deemer Class started with one stall in 1936 at the old Baltimore Marsh Market, expanded to the Pulaski Highway Market in the 1960s, and relocated to Jessup in the 1970s. Edward G. Rahll & Sons says it was first on Market Place in downtown Baltimore, in an open air market with no storage where produce was sold out of trucks on the sidewalk, then Pulaski Highway in 1960, then Jessup in 1976.

The policy worked, and then it was overtaken. The same director says that when the market opened, approximately 85 percent of the area's fruit and vegetables went through it, and that the evolution of the trucking industry let larger retailers buy direct, which moved business away. The market had 29 vendors in 2022. The directory we captured for this page lists exactly 29 today.

The kinds of supplier on this page

This category splits more cleanly than most: a handful of large distributors with their own fleets, a market floor full of specialists, and one cash and carry. Sorting by type is more useful than ranking, because the market tenants and the delivery houses answer completely different questions.

Supplier typeCatalogueCuttingMinimumDeliveryBest for
Local specialist9 hereNarrow, protein onlyCuts to your specificationUsually negotiableScheduled, local routesMenus where the cut is the dish
Regional distributor9 hereBroader, may run past proteinSome, varies by houseSet per accountMulti-state or multi-marketGroups wanting fewer accounts
Cash and carry2 hereWhatever is in the caseCut to order at the counterNone, you collectNoneSmall volume and mid-week gaps
National broadline2 hereEverything, one invoicePortion programmes, fixed specsDrop-size drivenFixed schedule, wide coverageConsolidating staples and dry goods

The count column is computed from the listings above. The rest describes how each business model typically works, not a term any individual company has published. Minimums and delivery days are always set per account, so treat this as a shortlist tool, not a quote.

Twenty-nine tenants, and fifteen of them publish nothing at all

The Maryland Food Center Authority is a state instrumentality and it publishes its own tenant list, which is why eight companies appear on this page that would otherwise be invisible. It is the same kind of source that carried our Chicago produce page, and it is better than any aggregator because the landlord is the state.

What that directory shows is worth sitting with. Of the 29 tenants, 15 publish nothing beyond a unit number and, mostly, a phone number. Of the handful that list a website, one is a parked domain and another refuses connections. Two of the market's largest merchants, holding 11 units and six units respectively, have no working website between them.

That is not a failure of research, it is the finding. This is a trade that never needed a website because its customers drive to it before dawn, and it is the clearest example in this directory of an industry whose online footprint tells you almost nothing about its size. We have listed the eight with enough published detail to describe honestly, named the count of those without, and written no descriptions we could not source.

Unit counts are the one reliable measure of scale here, because the landlord publishes them. Tony Vitrano Co. holds 11 units, Mario Produce seven, HK Produce six, Super Fresh five, AJ Fava four and Rahll 12, which Rahll itself describes as roughly a tenth of the market's floor space.

SupplierProduceFruitVegetablesSpecialtySeafoodDairyDry goodsTropicalBeefPorkPoultryDisposablesFresh cutFrozenShellfishAsianDeliversWalk-in counterSame-day availableShips nationally
Saval Foodservice
Sysco Baltimore
Restaurant Depot Baltimore
Capital Seaboard
Mister Fish
Belair Produce
B Green Wholesale
The Class Produce Group
Kousouris Bros. Wholesale Produce
Edward G. Rahll & Sons
Pete Pappas & Sons
OFV Wholesale Distribution
Coosemans DC
FreshPoint Mid-Atlantic
Tony Vitrano Co.
HK Produce
AJ Fava Produce Company
Agri Mex Produce
Rainbow Food and Produce
Pacific Coast Produce
Super Fresh Produce
Mario Produce

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.

Four names you would quote separately are one company owned by Sysco

Coastal Sunbelt, Lancaster Foods, East Coast Fresh and Hearn Kirkwood are all familiar names in this metro and they are all one business. FreshPoint Mid-Atlantic states it on its own page: formerly known as The Coastal Companies, founded in 1992 and acquired by Sysco in 2022. Its own site still lists Coastal Sunbelt and Lancaster as legacy locations, and all of it trades from one address on Whiskey Bottom Road in Laurel.

That matters here more than it would in most categories, because those four names turn up separately in supplier conversations and on invoices. An operator running Coastal against Lancaster for price is running one company against itself, and running either against Sysco Baltimore is doing the same thing one level up.

There is a second consolidation on this page that points the other way. Hearn Kirkwood was acquired in May 2019 by The Coastal Companies, a produce distributor buying a prepared foods business. Three years later Sysco bought the lot. A local acquisition became part of a national one, which is the ordinary shape of how a metro loses its independent middle.

What survives independently is at both ends of the scale: the large family houses with their own fleets, Class Produce since 1936 and Pete Pappas since 1942 and Belair since 1910, and the market floor specialists who never needed to be anything else.

Buying at the market, and what it costs to skip it

The market is open to buyers who are not chains, and the operators who use it are specific about the conditions. Bring cash, because the merchants there deal primarily with customers who have business accounts set up and invoices billed to them. Call ahead to confirm you can walk in without an account. Almost all of the vendors will sell in flats at a good price if you turn up.

It is also not a comfortable place to shop, and the people who use it say so. One operator comparing it with a city wholesaler puts it this way: for most items Kousouris only charges a few dollars per box more than the Maryland Food Center, and they are far less overwhelming to deal with, because the market is quite industrial and borderline chaotic.

That trade-off is the practical shape of this market. Two produce wholesalers are left inside Baltimore City, Kousouris Bros. on South Lakewood Avenue since 1929 and B Green on South Monroe Street since 1915, and both charge a little more for the convenience of not being in Jessup at five in the morning. Edward G. Rahll & Sons splits the difference by keeping its market warehouse open to the public during business hours.

For anyone below a broadline's free-delivery minimum the arithmetic changes again. Operators here describe splitting orders between a broadline and local vendors, and going to a cash and carry when the order is too small to clear the minimum. That is the same pattern as every other city in this directory, except that here the local vendor option is a state-owned building with 29 doors on it.

The shape of Baltimore's supplier base

Counted from the 22 listings above. Change the view, then narrow by supplier type to see how the mix shifts.

Produce22
Fruit15
Vegetables15
Specialty8
Dairy6
Seafood6
Dry goods5
Tropical5
Beef4
Disposables3
Fresh cut3
Pork3
Poultry3
Asian2
Frozen2
Shellfish2
Bagels1
Bakery1
Bread1
Cheese1
Coffee1
Crab meat1
Deli meats1
Herbs1

22 suppliers in view. Bars count suppliers carrying each product line, so they add up to more than 22: most suppliers carry several.

1

Confirm you can walk in before you drive to Jessup

Most tenants deal with account customers and bill invoices. Operators who buy there consistently advise calling ahead and bringing cash.

2

Use unit counts, not websites, to judge a market merchant

Half the tenants publish nothing at all, and two of the largest have no working site. The landlord publishes how many units each one holds, and that is the honest measure of scale.

3

Check whether your two produce suppliers share a parent

Four well-known names in this metro are one company owned by Sysco. Quoting them against each other is quoting one supplier twice.

4

Price the convenience of staying in the city

The two city wholesalers cost a little more per box than the market and are much easier to deal with. For a small kitchen that difference is often smaller than the trip.

Unfiltered

What people say about buying produce in Baltimore

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

r/baltimore19 points
[Gather Baltimore](https://www.facebook.com/GatherBaltimore/) was a great local program that was working to address food insecurity. They partnered with produce wholesalers in Jessup to distribute unsold, bruised, or deformed produce in 30-pound IKEA blue bags for $8 a bag, about twice a week. Unfortunately, they ran into funding issues and out of volunteers.
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r/baltimore5 points
You can go to the Maryland Wholesale Produce Market in Jessup, information on the [Maryland Food Center Authority Page](https://mfca.info/). But you may find it overwhelming since it's mostly people buying/selling hug quantities. [Kousouris Brothers](https://kousourisbros.com/) near the Safeway in Canton is an easier option. Bring cash for either place, they're primarily dealing with customers who have business accounts set up where invoices can be billed to.
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r/baltimore3 points
This is the answer right here! For most items Kousouris only charges a few dollars per box more than the MD Food Center, and they’re far less overwhelming to deal with. It’s quite industrial and borderline chaotic there. If u aren’t getting more than a few items it likely isn’t worth the extra drive time and confusion for the MD Food Center There’s also ABC trading in Pigtown which is like a slightly bigger version of Kousouris
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r/baltimore1 points
Lots of the produce wholesalers that serve the area are located in Jessup, which isn’t far. Almost all of the vendors there will sell to you in flats for a good price. For organic, [Class Produce](https://www.classproduce.com/) is usually pretty dependable but there are dozens of places all in the same area. I’d suggest calling ahead for availability and pricing and to confirm you can walk in without an account before you go.
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r/baltimore2 points
This is helpful, thanks! You sure it's pros-only though? [These guys](http://www.rahllproduce.com/index.html) make it sound like they're open to the public at certain times
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r/baltimore3 points
Is the produce market the same as the seafood market? Because I hit up the seafood market several times a year for oysters. I go super early (like 6:30am so I can get back and go to work). It's only $2 to get in at the gate house and while a lot of the vendors aren't set up to deal with guys who just want to pick up 100 oysters, there are are a few that will more than happily help you out for a great price.
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Pulled from r/baltimore and r/maryland. Four of these comments name suppliers listed on this page and two price them against each other, which is unusual for a directory corpus. 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 Baltimore: common questions

Where is Baltimore's wholesale produce market?

At Jessup in Howard County, about 12 miles southwest of the city, on a 400-acre state food centre. The Maryland Wholesale Produce Market began operating there in 1976 under an authority the General Assembly created in 1967, and it holds 333,000 square feet of terminal space with 29 tenants.

Can I buy at the Jessup produce market without a business account?

Often yes, but confirm first. Operators who buy there say almost all the vendors will sell in flats at a good price, that you should call ahead to check you can walk in without an account, and that you should bring cash, because the merchants primarily deal with customers who have accounts and get invoiced. Edward G. Rahll & Sons says on its own site that its warehouse is open to the public during business hours.

Who are the largest produce distributors in Baltimore?

FreshPoint Mid-Atlantic in Laurel is the largest, running 450,000 square feet of refrigerated space across two facilities. The Class Produce Group in Jessup runs 150,000 square feet plus a 60,000 square foot fresh-cut plant. Belair Produce in Hanover and Pete Pappas & Sons in Jessup are the other large family houses. On the market floor itself, Tony Vitrano Co. holds the most units at 11.

Are Coastal Sunbelt, Lancaster Foods and Hearn Kirkwood the same company?

Yes, and so is East Coast Fresh. All of them are now FreshPoint Mid-Atlantic, which says on its own page that it was formerly known as The Coastal Companies, was founded in 1992 and was acquired by Sysco in 2022. They trade from one address on Whiskey Bottom Road in Laurel, and the site still lists Coastal Sunbelt and Lancaster as legacy locations.

Are there any produce wholesalers left inside Baltimore City?

Two on this page. Kousouris Bros. has supplied the area from South Lakewood Avenue since 1929, stocking over 200 items with access to 500 more on 24 to 48 hours notice. B Green on South Monroe Street has traded since 1915 and is a walk-in cash and carry holding over 30,000 products. Everything else moved out to Jessup or to the county corridor.

Why do some listings here have no website?

Because those companies do not have one. Of the 29 tenants at the Jessup market, 15 publish nothing beyond a unit number and usually a phone. Of those that list a site, one domain is parked and another refuses connections, including two of the market's largest merchants. Those listings come from the Maryland Food Center Authority's own tenant directory and say so.

Which Baltimore suppliers carry specialty or Latin American produce?

Agri Mex Produce, also trading as Ortiz & Tapia, lists pineapple, guava, mangoes and papayas through to onions, habanero peppers, cilantro, chayote and serrano peppers. AJ Fava specialises in avocados, potatoes, onions and mangos and runs its own ripening rooms. Coosemans DC handles specialty produce as part of a national group, and HK Produce sources from Korea alongside California, Florida and Honduras.

How were these Baltimore produce listings verified, and who is missing?

Every address and claim was read from the company's own website or the state market's tenant directory in September 2026, and anything unpublished is left blank. Fifteen market tenants were verified as tenants but given no listing, because they publish nothing to describe. Companies in Landover, Lanham and New Jersey were excluded as a different metro despite delivering here.

A note on what is missing

Two known gaps. Greco and Sons, a large Chicago Italian foodservice distributor now being acquired by Sysco, is not listed because its site blocked our capture and we would not write it up from third-party sources. Stock Yards is a US Foods brand rather than an independent distributor, so it appears under US Foods rather than as its own listing. If you run a Baltimore produce distribution business and we have missed you, that is an omission rather than a judgement.

Listings verified September 2026. Details change; always confirm terms on a call.