Gilbert Orchards of Yakima, Washington is the present-day descendent of the firm of Richey and Gilbert, founded in the 1890s by Horace Mark (H.M.) Gilbert with the financial support of his wife’s family, the Richeys. Richey & Gilbert was a successful business throughout the first decades of the 1900s, with not only large investments in the fruit growing, packing, and shipping business, but also extensive interests in real estate development. H.M. Gilbert and his wife, Marion, were very active in community affairs and traveled extensively throughout the world—often marketing Richey & Gilbert fruit in far-flung locations. Following H.M. Gilbert’s death […]