
After years of losses, fruit growers in the Okanagan celebrate bountiful harvest
The grandparents of Vince Kuipers emigrated from the Netherlands to Kelowna in 1921 when they began to wort, and finally transmitted knowledge to their parents. Today, Kuipers has a family business collection business, Kuipers Fruit Family Farm in Kelowna, which has had difficult years with extreme climatic events that kill crops in Okanagan. “I grew…