Silver Apple Organic grower and consultant Dain Craver of Royal City received the Washington State Horticultural Association’s Silver Apple award. Craver grew up in California. His father, a police officer and part-time actor, moved the family to Spokane, Washington, when Craver was young. After attending Washington State University, Craver got a job managing orchards for Columbia Fruit Company and then spent 18 months managing an apple warehouse in New Mexico. After returning to Washington, he worked for the orchard supply company Northwest Wholesale, and leased his first orchard in 1988 in Royal City. He went into organic production in 1991 […]