A British Columbia, Canada, orchard is pioneering crop tunnels for apple –production. Raymond and Sonja Barker of Silverhill Orchard in Mission, B.C., about an hour’s drive east of Vancouver in the lush Fraser Valley, erected a tunnel over two rows of Alkmene trees this past spring hoping to reduce disease and boost the quality of their crop, which they sell at local farmers’ markets. “I think this system is the way of the future,” Raymond Barker said, standing between rows of Alkmene apples that colored up nicely in the tunnel. The fruit ripened two weeks earlier than usual, despite cold, […]