From November through February, icy winter winds reach down from the Arctic and grip the Pacific Northwest where Good Fruit Grower is based. During the height of winter, shortened hours of daylight have staff coming to and going from work in blackness, and the grey days aren’t much cheerier. If that’s not a big enough potential for depression, we also schedule this, our disease-theme issue, for February 15. To date—though our researcher friends keep telling us a close-up photograph of a blue mold-oozing Gala would make an inspiring cover—we’re not convinced that rotting fruit would make the average (earth-bound) reader […]