Vince Kuipers' grandparents emigrated from Holland to Kelowna in 1921 when they started orcharding, eventually passing the knowledge down to his parents.

Today, Kuipers owns a fruit-picking family business, Kuipers Fruit Family Farm in Kelowna, that has had a rough few years with extreme weather events killing crops in the Okanagan.

"I grew up in the orchard," he said, noting that orcharding has been his full-time job since 2015.

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