Behold the Apple

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Farewell to a beautiful autumn and harvest season!  The rooted team has documented the dear apple over the past 2 years in 10 different ways.  As this growing season comes to an exhausting closure, we bring you the journey of the apple from inception right down to the last savory bite.

Fruit Coitus

February 24, 2017
By Andreana Gamache

We at rooted live smack-dab in the middle of apple country.  When we say miles of orchard, it’s no boast.  There are quite literally fruit trees in any direction from where ever you happen to find yourself here in the Yakima Valley.  Depending on market trends and growing techniques, orchards are planted and replanted all the time.  After seeing this go on for years on end, I suppose I had never taken the time to think about where these orchards came from with any detail or deep thought.  How did those trees come to be? (Continued)

Apple Pride Does Abound


By Andreana Gamache

It’s true, we take for granted the things we see everyday. Even the extraordinary can become ordinary with enough routine. Living in the Yakima Valley, for example, who hasn’t seen an apple orchard? We all know the look, familiar by its tidy rows of leafy trees, some trellised, some not, blocked out against the pale yellow of the low desert hills. Driving by quickly on our way somewhere, it’s just, well, the Yakima Valley. (Continued)

Farmer Eyes


By Andreana Gamache

It’s true, we take for granted the things we see everyday. Even the extraordinary can become ordinary with enough routine. Living in the Yakima Valley, for example, who hasn’t seen an apple orchard? We all know the look, familiar by its tidy rows of leafy trees, some trellised, some not, blocked out against the pale yellow of the low desert hills. Driving by quickly on our way somewhere, it’s just, well, the Yakima Valley. (Continued)

October 21, 2016
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Driving the highways and byways of the Yakima Valley, you can see it.  The trees are finally waking.  As the shiny new growth pushes its way through the tree tips, the flower buds fist up, just waiting to burst open into fat, full blooms. (Continued)

Intergalactic Experience

October 21, 2016
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Going to the market to pick up some apples.  Pretty straightforward activity that I reckon everyone in America has done at some point or another.  But have you ever thought about that in reverse?  That is to say, the apple going to market to pick up some buyers?  Chances are, unless you are steeped in the fruit industry, you haven’t. (Continued)

The Intricacies and Innovation of the Off-Season Apple

By Andreana Gamache

Standing in a supermarket on a rainy March day, I find myself under the fluorescent lights examining apples to fill a bag for my kitchen fruit bowl. One by one I choose them, firm and enticing, until I have all I want. What’s unusual about this early spring apple selection scene? Absolutely nothing. (Continued)

In Between the Bin and the Box

February 21, 2017
By Andreana Gamache

Maybe I’m an apple nerd, but there’s something about a fruit packing line in action that makes me smile.  A recent walk-through at Valicoff Fruit with Brett Valicoff was no different.  Especially now when the frozen outside world contrasts so sharply with the colorful fruit rolling its way down the line, it’s a relief to be reminded of the sun’s presence and prowess from the on-season. (Continued)

 

Bittersweet Symphony

October 28, 2016
By Andreana Gamache

Snakebite and black.  That was the first eye opening experience I had with cider.  My Irish friend was living in Edinburgh, Scotland, and visiting her there for several weeks in the mid-1990s, she turned me on to her favorite drink—a snakebite and black.  Essentially half lager, half cider, with a hit of blackcurrant cordial, it was definitely the drink of choice for us barely 20-something-bar-going-hipsters of the day. (Continued)

Hot Frothy Shaken Moonshine

November 27, 2015
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“But for some, the drink embodies a proud cultural heritage of toughness and rebelliousness.” — *National Geographic

C’mon! What are you afraid of? Historically, moonshine was a clear spirit with a high alcohol content that was distilled illegally, often at night by the light of the moon–hence the name and its rebel connotation. But these days, moonshine may be just the hit Yakima needs to fully embrace change while still honoring its cultural roots. (Continued)

November 6, 2015
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Barefoot in the kitchen. It’s unfortunate that this image is associated with the ball and chain of housewivery and keeping the ladies down, because really, it’s a fantastic thing. To me, it implies intimacy with the space, that get close and nuzzle up familiarity that only comes after the shoes are kicked off—for the ladies or the gentlemen. (Continued)

Thank you Malissa Gatton for the above apple orchard photo.

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