News Items tag as: Okanagan apples

West Kelowna farm selling thousands of apples after fruit packers closure
November 17, 2024 - 6:00 AM
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Paynter’s farm is staying open later into the season to help move thousands of pounds of apples from local farmers after the BC Tree Fruits Cooperative shut down earlier this year.
Okanagan apple growers seek help after years of dismal returns
October 16, 2020 - 6:30 AM
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Okanagan apple growers protested current apple economics at last weekend's Kelowna Farmers Market.
Apple grower offers U-pick in response to scarce farm labour
September 22, 2020 - 6:30 AM
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Osoyoos apple grower Jack Relvas is getting creative this year as COVID-19 creates a shortage of apple pickers.
New markets provide renewed relevance for home-grown codling moth program
September 07, 2020 - 6:00 AM

As hard times hit the Okanagan apple industry, the Okanagan based program that battles one of the crop's most notorious pests is finding new relevance with markets for its technology south of the border.
Troubled times for Okanagan apple orchardists
February 18, 2020 - 8:00 AM
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It’s not the best of times for the Okanagan’s 400-plus apple growers who are struggling with low returns and an influx of cheap apples from Washington State.
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$145,000 fine for Kelowna orchardist previously involved in tractor death
A Kelowna company that grows, processes and exports cherries was fined last year following a fatal tractor incident has again been fined after a tractor driver was seriously injured. According to a recently published Feb. 6 WorkSafeBC

Marijuana gummies send 11 New York middle-schoolers to hospitals
MORICHES, New York (AP) — Police and a middle school in suburban New York are looking into how a student got hold of marijuana gummies and gave them to about a dozen schoolmates, sending 11 of them to hospitals. The episode happened M

Okanagan’s first ‘net-zero’ home is insulated with hemp
In an effort to make construction more sustainable a Kelowna developer has built a home insulated with hemp. The 5-bedroom, 3.5-bathroom, 2,430 square foot home at 278 Summer Wood Drive in the Echo Ridge development in Kelowna meets the pro

West Kelowna farm selling thousands of apples after fruit packers closure