Future Good Fruit Grower of the Year? Kai Phelan Hanrahan gets an early taste of the fruit-growing business, encountering his first apple and his first issue of Good Fruit Grower magazine at the tender age of eight days. Kai, born April 10 this year, is the first child of Ines and Mark Hanrahan. Mark is a second-generation orchardist, growing cherries, pears, apples, and grapes in Washington’s Yakima Valley. Ines, who is from Germany, first visited Washington as part of an agricultural exchange and worked at Peters Orchard in Wapato. She later earned a doctorate in postharvest physiology from Washington State […]