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Stewardship
Our Environment
We are very fortunate to live and work in the Pacific Northwest; home of towering mountains, crisp, clear air, and pristine snow fed streams. With this blessing follows a solemn responsibility to be good stewards of our natural surroundings. And at Dovex this is a mission that influences everything we do in our business.
A Gentle Hand on the Land.
As an industry leader in organic tree fruit farming, we tend to our farms as if they are our own back yards, which they are. Visit a Dovex organic orchard and you will immediately be struck by the difference:
Lush, nitrogen-fixing rows of clover straddle the rows of trees
Crop residues such as tree prunings are returned to the soil minimizing the need for off-farm inputs
Judicious use of micro-sprinklers conserves our precious water, reduces runoff and the leaching of nutrients into the soil
Riparian areas around our organic orchards are cared for and enhanced in order to encourage the natural insect enemies of pests
Biological (rather than chemical) pest control such as mating disruption for two of our most serious pests; codling moth and leaf roller
Conserving Energy for a Better Future
Farming, storing, packing and shipping tree fruit can be an energy intensive endeavor. Yet imbued with our ethic of environmental stewardship, we diligently work to be frugal consumers of energy in all our activities. Dovex is a local pioneer in the Chelan County PUD’s ResourceSmart program.
Fast acting refrigeration doors
Energy conserving CO2 scrubbers
Variable fan drives save power
A 100% electric fleet of forklifts
Clean, Renewable, Non-Polluting Power.
In the Pacific Northwest, our existence inextricably linked with our natural environment. Our towering, snow-clad volcanoes are the source of both our rich volcanic soil and our cold, clear snow fed streams from which our orchards draw their liquid sustenance. This natural bounty is also the wellspring of another precious resource; clean, renewable, non-polluting hydropower. This means that 100% of the electricity used by Dovex comes from renewable resources that cause no greenhouse gases.
And the more that Dovex is able to conserve in the abovementioned ResourceSmart partnership with the Chelan County PUD, the more of our non polluting power can be shared in the wholesale market meaning less demand nationwide for non-renewable power generation like coal and nuclear.