From the sunny landscapes of California to a southern Oregon apple orchard, Blair Smith and Marcey Kelley kicked off their cider production with modest, non-alcoholic sweet ciders. Soon after their Applegate, Ore., orchard business took off (as Thompson Creek...
Hardly into its second year as a roaster in the city where locals roast their own green beans, Seattle's Slate Coffee Roasters has made its mark amongst the masses. With high-quality coffee from varying countries and continents "in order to highlight the diversity...
The craft beer renaissance of the Ballard neighborhood of Seattle is in a full upsurge. One of Washington state's oldest, still-existing breweries, Redhook Brewery, first cut its teeth in an old transmission shop of this 'hood in 1982. Another Seattle beer pioneer,...
Apple and pear orchards are nothing new to Washington's East Wenatchee. Nor are they new to the Van Reenen family—on land first purchased by their great-grandfather, brothers Kevin and Mark Van Reenen have been producing ciders under the name of Neigel Vintners for...
Founded in 1979, Hood River, Ore.'s Ryan's Fresh Fruit Juice established itself as a leading producer in fresh, Northwest-grown apple juice. The product is 100 percent juice—always pure and never from concentrate—handpicked and sorted then squeezed from the cream...
Born and raised on their family's five-generation-old Yakima Valley farm, brothers Patrick and Matthew Rawn wore every hat around the property from forklift operators to takeout order-retreivers as they grew up—now their hats are worn as vignerons. Two Mountain...
The Fairmont hotels have the innate capacity to instantly transport their guests to a posh soiree in “The Great Gatsby.” Although the men donning suits might be in their business attire more so than social get-ups and the ladies must have left their flapper garb at...
As a very proud alum of Washington State University, I was happy to see Seattle Cider Co. team up with the WSU Northwestern Washington Research & Extension Center in Mount Vernon, Wash., for the production a scrumpy in SSC's new series of heirloom ciders. WSU...
Teri Gelber runs her tea business, T Project Teas, in synchronicity with the Japanese philosophy of "Sampo Yoshi," roughly meaning "good for seller, good for buyer, good for community." This three-way satisfaction business model is setting Gelber and T Project Teas...
Born and bred in Boise, Melanie Krause started her love of agriculture in her parents' garden as a child. This love took her all the way to Washington State University to achieve a degree in biology (and Spanish to boot) and soon thereafter dig back into her roots...
