Using environmentally sound, sustainable practices to produce tree fruit is one of the core values of supplier-partners of FirstFruits Marketing of Washington, a new marketing firm in Yakima, Washington. Organic fruit will be an important part of the manifest at FirstFruits. Sales projections for organic fruit sales in the first year are around 1.5 million cartons. Broetje Orchards and Columbia Valley Fruit LLC, the two current suppliers of FirstFruits, produce about 25 percent of the states organic tree fruit volume. Broetje added 300 acres of organic apples this year to its 900 acres of tree fruit already certified organic. Although […]