First Aid Training

When we have our audit for Safe Quality Food, one of the requirements will be that our farm has someone on the premises with a first aid/CPR card. Bam! Mission accomplished! Three of our supervising employees earned their first aid/CPR cards last week in a full day training at Chelan Fruit here in Chelan.   

Way to go, Arturo! Notice the fine pruning cuts Arturo skillfully chooses in this block of Union Valley Honeycrisps? At the end of this week, he will move the crew to Purtteman to begin pruning the cherry trees.

You rock, Rodolfo! Notice the freshly painted walls behind Rodolfo? He and Suzy finished painting all of the interior walls in the Union Valley worker housing. The next step will be to plumb in utility sinks and add new cabinets to Unit D. The "D" use to stand for disaster but now represents delightful. So delightful, in fact, that Victor has decided to move from Unit C to Unit D. Rodolfo has become quite the carpenter and plumber through this renovation process.

High five, Cuco! Cuco and Mario have been pruning the SweeTangos in Purtteman. We wanted this block to get a customized pruning job by two critical thinkers. That meant Cuco and Mario!  The pruning goal in the SweeTangos this year is to slow the growth in the tops of the trees and to promote some fill in with limbs in the lower sections.

Kanpai, Bill! We hiked 3 miles above the Anglemyer Place on Sunday, and Bill found an antler.  Notice the half rack poking out of Bill's back pocket?  Perhaps the antler was a sign that yes indeed these woods need a man-cave? Back at the car, we toasted our hiking achievement as the snow started falling.