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Paynter's Fruit Market
About Paynter's Fruit Market
Okanagan summers are measured in fruit. Cherries first, then apricots and peaches, plums and pears through the middle of the season, and apples carrying on into the cool weather. Paynter's Fruit Market works that calendar from 3687 Paynter Rd in Westbank, on the west side of Okanagan Lake.
West Kelowna sits on ground that was orchard within living memory. Much of the bench and plateau land became housing as the west side grew into the youngest city in the valley, but pockets of growing land remain between the subdivisions, and Paynter Road runs through one of them on the way out of Westbank. A fruit market in that setting sits closer to the growing season than most grocery aisles do, since the shelves depend on the calendar of the trees rather than a fixed year round stock.
Because the trade follows the trees, timing is everything. What is available in early July looks nothing like what is there in late September, and a variety piled high one week can be finished the next. Weather has a direct effect too, since rain at the wrong moment during cherry season can close a picking window quickly. Anyone driving out for something particular, or wanting a case for canning or freezing, is best served by phoning first to ask what is ready. The same call is the right moment to raise larger orders, any u pick arrangements, and how late in the season the doors stay open.
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In the Westbank neighbourhood of West Kelowna.
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