by Emily Zirkle | Feb 3, 2020 | Articles, Family Fun, Holiday, Home and Family, Our Fruit, Pears, Recipes
It’s still Great American Pie Month and here at Rainier Fruit that means being creative and celebrating with every fruit we cultivate. What better way to liven up these cold winter months than with warm pies shared between friends, colleagues, and loved ones? Let’s...
by Emily Zirkle | Feb 3, 2020 | Apples, Family Fun, Holiday, Home and Family, News, Our Fruit, Recipes
There’s something warm and magical about the winter season: whether it’s the family gathered around the fireplace celebrating the holidays, curling up underneath a soft blanket with a good book, or the aroma of a warm and savory meal filling the house on a cold day....
by Emily Zirkle | Feb 21, 2018 | Our Fruit
Modern apple farming encompasses a lot more than growing and picking apples. From sales and marketing professionals to sustainability experts, entomologists, mechanics, electricians, data analysts and more, we have a lot of very diverse jobs at Rainier Fruit. Meet...
by Emily Zirkle | Sep 17, 2017 | Our Fruit
September is National Organic Month so we thought it would be a good time to tell you about our organic fruit, and take a look at how this whole organic food business got started. If history is correct, some of the first organics were being cultivated as early as...
by Emily Zirkle | Oct 25, 2016 | Our Fruit
This year as we have been documenting the lifestyle stories of our employees, athletes and regular people; a theme has emerged. That theme is hard work. And the old saying “nothing worth having comes easy” is as relevant today as it was in the past, whenever, whoever...
by Emily Zirkle | Sep 16, 2016 | Our Fruit
It’’s easy to think about apples, and we grow a lot of them. But, we also grow pears. In fact, pears and apples kind of go hand-in-hand. The same soil and weather that make the Yakima & Cashmere Valley areas perfect for growing apples, also make it perfect...