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Quincy Tahoma was born near Tuba City, Arizona on Christmas Day 1921. [1] Tahoma means "Water Edge". [2] As a young boy he became familiar with many religious and traditional chants and rituals. He also was known for creating "sand paintings." As a boy he spent much of his time hunting and fishing, and later in life he drew much of his artistic ...
Sunkist Growers, Incorporated, branded as Sunkist, is an American citrus growers' non-stock membership cooperative composed of over 1,000 members from California and Arizona headquartered in Valencia, California. [1] Through 31 offices in the United States and Canada and four offices outside North America, its sales in 1991 totaled $956 million.
Florida's Natural Growers is an agricultural cooperative based in Lake Wales, Florida. It is currently owned by over 1,100 grower members. It is currently owned by over 1,100 grower members. It was the only national orange juice maker that used only US-grown fruit (grown by its cooperative members in Florida ) in its products; however, this ...
Near Fresno, the Koda family had been major rice growers who owned 5,000 acres and leased another 4,000 in December 1941, before they were hustled off to the camps.
TheSugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida dates began in the 1950s when 16 farmers met to discuss joining together with other farmers in the Glades Area, west of West Palm Beach, Florida, and southeast of Lake Okeechobee, to form a farming cooperative. In July 1960, 54 farmer-members chartered Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative of Florida.
Stemilt Growers, owned by the Mathison family, is a family-owned tree fruit growing, packing and shipping company based in Wenatchee, Washington. Stemilt is the largest fresh market sweet cherry shipper in the world, [ 1 ] and one of the nation's largest grower-packer-shippers of apples , pears , cherries, and stone fruit .
Gardens Alive! hosts the print version of Mike McGrath's "Question of the Week" from the nationally syndicated weekly radio show, "You Bet Your Garden". [ 4 ] As of 2010, Gardens Alive! had annual sales of approximately $170 million and employed 400–450 people year round, and close to 1,000 at peak seasonal demand.
On March 20, 1917, it was reported that Pomona had been chartered by the People's Transportation Company to operate out of The Dalles on the Columbia River as a temporary replacement for the Tahoma, which had recently struck a rock and sank. [32] Salvage operations were then under way for the Tahoma. [32]