'We're bringing some fruits from the States, which is really hard for me because we only sell B.C. products,' said Jennay Oliver of Paynters Market in West Kelowna.
FILE. A farm market in Loganville, Penn., shows freshly harvested yellow Saturn donut peaches. There won't be bins of Okanagan peaches this year due to a January cold snap.A bitter cold snap in January, which saw temperatures plunge to -28 C for a couple of days, killed off nearly all Okanagan stone fruits.
“We’re bringing some fruits from the States, which is really hard for me because we only sell B.C. products.”Her first crop of foreign peaches is from Georgia. The Paynters will also be importing peaches from Washington for their fruit stand.Other markets throughout the Okanagan and Lower Mainland will be doing the same.
Her family planted its first orchard in West Kelowna in 1919 and their first fruit stand opened in 1951.
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