Produce stands fill local niches
Employee Paige Wood shows off one of the famous milkshakes from White Trail Produce near Quincy.
Cheryl Schweizer/Columbia Basin Herald
Sunny Farms owner Pam Schmidt said the produce stand fills a need in the Othello area.
Onions fill a row of baskets at the Sunny Farms produce stand near Othello.
Granny Smith apples are ready for customers at White Trail Produce.
Quincy-area wines are among the products for sale at White Trail Produce in Quincy.
Various varieties of apples on the shelf at Sunny Farms.
OTHELLO/QUINCY — Nature is said to abhor a vacuum; agriculture definitely does. Two produce stands, one in Othello and the other in Quincy, show how farmers saw a niche in the market and fashioned a product – a similar product, but not the same – to fill it.
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