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East Wenatchee Washington- looking NW, Columbia River in the valley below. There are many orchards surrounding East Wenatchee. Commercial crops primarily include apples, sweet cherries and pears. Apricots, peaches, nectarines, and plums are also grown. Wheat and other grain are also grown on farms in the outlying areas near East Wenatchee.
Stemilt Growers, owned by the Mathison family, is a family-owned tree fruit growing, packing and shipping company based in Wenatchee, Washington.Stemilt is the largest fresh market sweet cherry shipper in the world, [1] and one of the nation's largest grower-packer-shippers of apples, pears, cherries, and stone fruit.
Orondo is an unincorporated community in Douglas County, Washington, United States, located alongside the eastern part of the Columbia River. It is part of the Wenatchee–East Wenatchee Metropolitan Statistical Area. The area is well known for its robust agriculture industry, and produce fruits such as apples, cherries and pears.
The Washington State Department of Agriculture (originally known as the Washington Agriculture Commission) was established in 1913. [1]In 1915, the state legislature granted the WSDA authority to create and enforce grading standards for apples and other tree fruit packed in the state.
The East Wenatchee Clovis Site (also called the Richey-Roberts Clovis Site or the Richey Clovis Cache) is a deposit of prehistoric Clovis points and other implements, dating to roughly 11,000 radiocarbon years before present or about 13,000 calendar years before present, found near the city of East Wenatchee, Washington in 1987. Accidentally ...
Following John's stroke (and death in 1954), [2] Jacquelyn (1924–2008), [18] eldest of his four daughters, and her husband Robert D. McDougall (1924–2012) [19] [20] took over management of Horan Brothers after Walt Horan's son Michael ran the orchard until it was taken by the government and turned into a park. All of the fruit trees were ...
Columbia Basin College, a two-year institution which offers a four-year Bachelor of Applied Science program in Applied Management (8,000 students). The main campus is located in Pasco while a branch campus and a nursing school are located in Richland.
Wenatchee is referred to as the "Apple Capital of the World" due to the valley's many orchards. The city is also sometimes referred to as the "Buckle of the Power Belt of the Great Northwest" which is a metaphor for the series of hydroelectric dams on the Columbia River.