– Don and Lilian’s orchard (Ruth’s Orchards) is now home to Jungle Mania, Salmon Arm Recreation Center, and the Okanagan College in Salmon Arm, British Columbia.

Located on a farm not far from Don and Lilian’s home and maintained the ideal temperature to keep the apples fresh from fall until spring. Their fruit was kept and sold out of The Root House which was an underground building built specifically for that purpose.

People would drive miles to The Root House and then purchase the farm-fresh goods they adored at the end of Ruth’s long driveway. As the community expanded, the Ruth’s purchased the acreage that surrounded their home. They continued planting additional fruit trees since they were thoroughly enjoying the lifestyle that came along with owning an orchard. In 1951 Don and Lilian built the very first fruit stand in Salmon Arm, BC to retail their farm-fresh fruit.