Mary Lou Peterson is the first female county commissioner in Okanogan, and runs orchards with her husband, Dan. Photo by Geraldine Warner Farm women are strong women, and they need to draw on that strength to help ensure that the family farm survives, Mary Lou Peterson told participants at the Washington Women in Agriculture conference this spring. “You women are the foundation of the family farms,” she said. “We’re strong people, all of us, because being a farmer makes you strong.” Peterson grew up on a family orchard in Oroville, near Washington’s border with Canada, where she and her husband, Dan, […]