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Starting with the 2022 apple crop Sage Fruit Co. will have SugarBee apples available for its retail and wholesale partners as a result of its newly formed partnership with Chelan Fruit. “We feel this is an excellent opportunity for our organization and we are thrilled to be able to supply our retail and wholesale partners, as well as our food service customers with the SugarBee,” said Chuck Sinks, Sage Fruit’s president of sales and marketing. 

Sage Fruit Co. will partner with Chelan Fruit beginning with the 2022 cherry season. Chelan Fruit joins the Sage Fruit family of grower-packer-shippers to enhance the marketing, sales and distribution of Washington-grown tree fruit. Through this new partnership, Sage Fruit will add considerable volume of conventional and organic apples, pears and cherries to their manifest.

“Washington has a really good crop of apples this year,” said Mac Riggan, director of marketing for Chelan Fresh Inc. The Chelan, WA-based marketing team supports more than 300 family-owned farms specializing in premium apples. “Year after year, the Washington apple industry is providing more and more of the emerging varieties, with these new varieties taking up a greater percentage of the overall crop volume,” he said.

North Central Washington growers find Honeycrisp-derived club varieties well-suited for the climate