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Mobile Juice Factory - Turn Your Excess Fruit into Juice
Okanagan orchardists can have Mobile Juice Factory turn their excess fruit into juice, increase their income and help the environment.
By Tom Walker It’s not surprising that an award-winning organic orchardist, viticulturist and wine maker would be concerned about the impact that the fruit industry has on the environment. “Every year there are thousands of pounds of waste fruit going into the landfills,” says Karnail Sidhu, who recently won the BC Grapegrowers Association Viticulturalist of the Year award. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Okanagan orchardists have a convenient option if they want to turn their excess fruit into juice, increase their income and help the environment. In addition to growing and making award winning organic wines, Karnail owns the Mobile Juice Factory and will travel to your orchard and press your fruit. “We provide orchardists an alternative to dumping, as well as creating a value-added product,” Karnail explains. “We serve the smaller fruit grower,
someone who might have their own roadside stand. If they have extra fruit at the end of the season or culls that they want to use, we can turn them into juice and pack it up in a bag in the box.” The Mobile Juice Factory will travel to an orchard if a grower has as little as 10 bins of fruit. “That is the minimum order that we can process at an orchard site,” Karnail explains. But if you have less, he will
Karnail Sidhu, owns the Mobile Juice Factory and will travel to your orchard and press your fruit. Summer 2021
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