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  • October 2007 Issue
  • Family takes — inspiration from Canada

    Diversification is their core strategy.

    Dave and Judi Taber and their son, Dave, Jr., sell many types of locally grown fruits and vegetables at their fruit stand, as well as their own wines. As tree fruit growers close to Washington State’s northern border, Dave and Judi Taber are geographically challenged. With only one small packing house left in Oroville, most of the fruit destined for the big retail chains has to be trucked two or three hours south to be packed and shipped. But the Tabers, who have been fruit growers for 34 years, look to their close neighbors in Canada for ideas on how […]

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