Red Globe peaches picked ripe from the tree at the Pipitone orchard. The odometer on Jerry Pipitone’s truck has clocked over a quarter of a million miles. Several days a week, almost year round, Pipitone drives from Rock Island in eastern Washington to farmers’ markets in the Seattle area to sell his organic fruits and spreads. A former tugboat sailor, Pipitone moved to arid eastern Washington 30 years ago and grew organic vegetables, first as a hobby, then as a commercial venture. He leased a five-acre farm in Rock Island that had an acre of fruit trees and ended up […]