Mobile juicer creates cash


for culls


On-site service aimed at helping apple growers improve their profit picture. By Judie Steeves


K


risten Wurtele grew up in the Okanagan Valley and wants to be able to help orchardists and


keep the industry alive. She’s doing what she can to “maintain the culture of Okanagan orchards;” to keep what she sees as “an amazing, fertile valley. It would be sad to lose it.”


So, she has purchased a mobile apple juicer that takes shovel-fulls of cull apples and turns them into bag- in-a-box juice—before your eyes. Wurtele’s price is all-inclusive, leaving the grower with five or 10-litre containers of juice that will keep without cold storage for a year on the shelf and that are good for three months once open, unrefrigerated. No air can get back into the juice because of the design of the valve that dispenses the juice, and the bags are rated for hot fills, which they receive, due to the flash pasteurization process used.


“My mantra is to be culturally, economically and environmentally sustainable. This can help orchardists generate a profit for cull apples, without impacting their current operations,” she explains.


The juicer is mounted onto a trailer, 16


JUDIE STEEVES Kristen Wurtele at the controls of her mobile juicing system. POLLINATION


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SIMILKAMEEN APIARIES for local pollination conditions


professional experience with orchard sets


Getting the bees to your trees! Cawston, B.C. (250)499.2555 Blair and Cheryl Tarves


Service Area: South Okanagan/Similkameen British Columbia FRUIT GROWER • Fall 2012


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