Apple-a-Day
Danielle ’12 and Megan ’13 LaRiviere could sell iceboxes to Eskimos. Or coals to Newcastle. Even apples to Yakima.
Three years ago, prompted by their insurance agent father who bemoaned the lack of good snack food, they started visiting businesses around their hometown of Yakima offering to provide them with a steady supply of apples. Subscribers get a small cooler stocked weekly with the best apple varieties available.
From the start, their Apple-a-Day service got a “pretty good response,” they say.
Good enough, that is, that when it came time to return to school for fall semester, they bought a van, hired a delivery driver, … » More …