Jim and Rena Doornink planted this block of Jazz apples last spring. Jazz will fill a gap in their harvest schedule between Honeycrisp and Fuji, keeping their crew busy all summer long. During his 35 years as an orchardist, Jim Doornink has always enjoyed strategizing about how to run a successful orchard business—and how to keep it successful. The 64 acres of family orchard at Parker, Washington, that he started out with in 1974 have grown to 260 acres. Once heavily planted to Red Delicious, the orchard is now a “Red-free zone,” as he describes it. Jim and his wife […]