[Growwine] Interesting article re: grapes vs tree fruits in the Okanagan

[steven kett]

I believe that the growers with a unique market or a unique product will find it much easier to find success in this narrowing market. Similar to the situation of the Ambrosia variety of apple known in the Okanagan, there are also numerous amounts of organic growers that have a niche market which they could expand? The similkameen Valley from my first hand experience was all organic and many were using this to there advantage... Organic Fruit Wineries, Cidery etc..

Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:42:01 -0600From: prairiegrapes at gmail.comTo: growwine at littlefatwino.comSubject: Re: [Growwine] Interesting article re: grapes vs tree fruits in the Okanagan
There are still a lot of growers that have cherries and apples in the Okanagan. Those guys that have made the shift to high density orchards and produce high quality fruit are still doing well. . Take the apple variety Ambrosia for instance it's a unique BC product and the growers producing it have done very well. The orchardists that are growing high quality fruit are doing quite well most years. Some orchards like KLO have diversified and are doing quite well
 
http://www.k-l-o.com/   
 
The big problem in the Okanagan is development golf courses, 
high end condos and resorts are all putting pressure on the agricultural base. There are a lot of land use issues in the region. I lived and worked in the industry for 20 years in the Okanagan. I'm sure you will find there are other areas in North America facing the same problems.
 
Cheers
Kim Maser
On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 1:21 PM, Lon J. Rombough <lonrom at hevanet.com> wrote:
How about making use of the brainpower here to help?  I'm not in Canada, so I can't do it.Collect up as many possible apple products as possible, find large-scale recipes for them.  Then prepare a good introductory letter.  Now, combine all that and mail it to the author of the original article and the publication it appeared in,  all the growers' groups, processors, and appropriate governmental agencies.Maybe nothing would happen, maybe it would.  Total time spent, using e-mail, probably wouldn't be more than a few hours and it MIGHT actually help.Maybe I'm oversimplifying this, but sometimes a nudge is all it takes.-Lon RomboughGrapes, writing, consulting, my book, The Grape Grower, at http://www.bunchgrapes.com  Winner of the Garden Writers Association "Best Talent in Writing" award for 2003.For all other things grape,   http://www.vitisearch.comA video about The Grape Grower : http://cookingupastory.com/index.php/2008/04/18/the-grape-grower/ 
On Jul 14, 2008, at 11:36 AM, melissa lounsbury wrote:
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