Oppy’s Post

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Hi, good morning from. Gilbert Orchards. Today is the first day of packing at Gilberts. It's about 5:20 in the morning, 5:40 in the morning, excuse me, and it's about 28��F. So it's sub freezing here and we're off to go and see the packing for the very first time on Envy Gilbert Torches. Stay tuned. More to follow. Well, good morning again. It's roughly 845 and I'm here with the President and CEO, Sean Gilbert at his at his facility. So Sean, first of all, welcome to the happy family. You and I have been doing business for a long time together. We've known each other over the years. And today's your first day of packing. How's it feel? It's very exciting. Yeah, I, I've been looking forward to this day for a long time. We got involved in the ends of program with the Sunquist partnership in 2009. And we've been growers ever since growing started with civic rows and Jazz and, and graduated MD shortly after. And yeah, very excited to to be a part of this. Got my team all lined up and ready to go. And today we have an I'll introduce him later. We have a whole contingent of OPI staff here who is going to help make sure that everything runs smoothly. I know you're just off on the line. What do you think of the fruit so far? Looks amazing. This is it's our first time I really seeing seeing envy buffed up and and and cleaned up on on our line. We've I've I've usually just seen him, seen him out in the orchard and sent him out to the sent him over to to Allen brothers or McDougal. And this is the first time we get to get to see him alive and and in person in on our in our facility. The the whole whole building is a is a bright shade of red right now. Boxes, all sorts of boxes that are going to be going all over the world and it's exciting to see. So how many generations are you as a grower? I mean, in just overall, yeah. So I'm the fifth generation of the Gilbert family to be managing through business here in Yakima. So my my dad and uncle managed company for about 30 years and and bought them out about six years ago now. So just for the OPI team, as you as you've seen this you, you're in the good hands. Of a fifth generation grower and obviously a Packer. So this is full round. Sean has a long history with OPI. He's been through the good, the bad and the ugly and we're going to make it all good here. So please, please, please share this video with your customers, share the quality that I've sent with your customers and let's get this thing going and happy selling. Thank you. Thank you so much. Alright team, so just so you're aware that we do have a contingent from API here we have Irene, Lisa who's now trying to hide Jonathan and Goran who's working with Ethan, who's working with the production managers. And we were all here making sure that the apples are in the system. So it's not just one person, it's it starts in the field, it starts in the with the orchards. And now as you can see, the apples are flowing and soon enough we'll have. All the apples are optimal and we'll be off to the races so. Just know that you're in very good hands across the board with everyone at the Gilberts OPM Team D team.