Strawberry Barreling Plant

ID: 454 ~ Source: https://olgastrawberrycouncil.org/the-building.html

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This is a photo of the original Olga Strawberry Barreling Plant building taken in 1974. The building was unused for several decades before coming a restaurant in 1978.

This file appears in: The Strawberries That Saved Orcas

The Strawberries That Saved Orcas – How a new crop brought wealth and prosperity to Orcas during the Great Depression.

By Deanna Bugel

Despite years of successful farming of apples, plums, and other fruit species regularly found in Washington, the Great Depression brought a challenge and then an innovative solution to Orcas Island. The twenties and thirties on Orcas Island…