Robert Stearns of Kelowna is cutting his apple trees because he can’t afford to replant them. Marc Arellano During a scene in the film Strange Fruit: A Changing Landscape in the Central Okanagan, Canadian orchardist Robert Stearns struggles to contain his emotions as he explains why he is knocking over apple trees on his 30-acre orchard. The 59-year-old Kelowna, British Columbia, grower has been working the land for 31 years, but diminishing returns on his apples and consecutive years of losing money have forced him into a desperate situation. “In the last four years, we’ve got such low prices that […]