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Jennay Oliver accepts the Business of the Year award.
Paynter’s Fruit Market has been named the Business of the Year and ‘Platinum Service Provider’ at the Greater Westside Board Key Business Awards.
There are very few people in the Central Okanagan who don’t know Paynter’s Fruit Market.
The operation started in 1919 when orchardist Edwin Paynter put in his first plantings, and the fruit stand opened in 1951.
The market is now run by his great-granddaughter Jennay Oliver, who took over as the fourth generation running the family farm and market in 2007.
Today the market is a 2,000 square foot operation located just off the main drag in West Kelowna, and offers hundreds of local products, all grown, made or produced in British Columbia.
While Paynters is a major support of local farmers, the family still produces a lot of the products sold at the market, producing a variety of fresh fruits and vegetables from their 35 acre farm.
One of the ways Oliver has made Paynters so successful is by planning her crops so her team can harvest fruits and vegetables daily for approximately 130 days a year.
For that reason, Paynters can offer produce every day, that was literally picked the same day.