Orondo Ruby will be grown and packed by a single company and sold by one marketer to a sole retailer initially. The owners of a new cherry variety called Orondo Ruby are positioning it as a unique type of cherry—neither black nor yellow—that will stand out in an increasingly competitive cherry market. The cherry is thought to be a highly colored mutation of Rainier. Marcus Griggs, a cherry grower and partner at Orondo Fruit Company in Orondo, Washington, discovered the cherry in his orchard about five years ago. He noticed that one tree in a young Rainier block had fruit […]