Falkner Creek Farm

On the Naramata Bench, apricots ripen between the vineyard rows that made the area famous. Joel and Marta Falkner kept their grandparents' apricot blocks when everyone else was pulling them out for grapes — somebody had to.

Apricots are the hardest stone fruit to buy well, because a ripe one survives about three days. The only way to eat a real one is to know exactly when it's coming off the tree. That's precisely the problem a drop solves, and it's why the Falkners signed on first.