B&T Orchards Ltd. and M&M Orchards Ltd.

Thursday, September 26, 2013

The apple harvest has begun

The apple harvest has begun, and while the crop is set to be delicious it will be the lowest volume produced in years. (Video: Jen Zielinski)
Our farm is in this production
http://www.castanet.net/video/

Monday, August 27, 2012

White cloth roller

The white cloth roller is designed to remove the white cloth out of the orchard.The cloth is placed in the orchard over the grass in the center of the row.The idea of the cloth is that the suns rays will reflect off of the cloth and onto the bottom of the apples to increase the color around the apple.The roller was built by Jerry Coupal to speed up removal and cut cost on labor when removing the cloth from the rows.We used the roller this August and it worked great. This was definitely a good investment.

History

Malcolm Mitchell’s mothers family moved to Winfield BC in 1918. They purchased a ten acre lot from the Okanagan Land Company between 1929 and 1939. Grandma and Grandpa Mitchell purchased 2 more ten acre lots, one ten acre parcel from Jack Seaton and another ten acre parcel from Dr. Alan Sean. They continued to farm the 30 acres until 1968 when Malcolm and Margret Mitchell purchased the lot that their house is built on today. In 1972 Grandma and Grandpa Mitchell retired and Malcolm and Margret Mitchell purchased the two remaining 10 acre lots. They farmed the entire property until Mike and Sherry Mitchell purchased the most northern of the 3 lots from Malcolm and Margret Mitchell in 2006. Malcolm and Margret still farm their remaining 20 acres today.