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  • July 2025 Issue
  • Story by Kate Prengaman
  • New owners to revive BC Tree Fruits brand and facilities

    The BC Tree Fruits logo will be resurrected this season by a new investment partnership between a British Columbia real estate company and an Ontario apple grower. Related: Canadian co-op collapse “That BC leaf has a value to a lot of people in Western Canada,” said Kirk Kemp, the owner of Algoma Orchards, a grower-packer in Ontario that will be operating the packing lines and storage facilities previously owned by the BC Tree Fruits Cooperative, which shut down last summer. “We’re going to be packing as BC Tree Fruits, that’s the important thing.” While Kemp and his partners, Penticton-based Wildstone […]

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