“I’m looking for someone who wants to buy some unique and irreplaceable equipment to carry on the business.” Dave Johnson’s been making wooden boxes for 60 years, undeterred by the fact that the fruit industry long ago stopped using them. Johnson started his career as a teenager nailing apple boxes together in north central Washington orchards. As the apple industry switched to cartons and then the cherry and pear industries followed suit, Johnson kept thinking each year might be his last as a boxmaker. From fruit boxes, he switched to making wooden crates for vegetables and grapes. When the grape […]