🍎New Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Filing - Brewster Heights Packing & Orchards, LP🍎
Fruit producer falls from the tree into chapter 11 with an unclear path
On June 4, 2026, Brewster Heights Packing and Orchards, LP dba Gebbers Farms and twelve affiliates (collectively, the “debtors” and together with their non-debtor affiliates, the “company”) filed chapter 11 bankruptcy cases in the Eastern District of Washington (Judge Corbit). Headquartered in Brewster, WA — a ~3.5 hour drive from Seattle — the company grows, packs, markets, and ships 🍎, 🍒, and 🍐, employing ~3.7k individuals* and selling ~17.3mm boxes of fruit, including ~13.3mm boxes of apples and ~3.4mm boxes of cherries to 540+ clients in FY’24.
Which it has been doing for a long-a$$ time. The company dates back over 100 years, initially focusing on timber and sawmill operations before transitioning into agriculture, and is in its sixth generation of Gebbers-family leadership.
A seventh generation is, however, not in the cards, 😔. That pulls on Johnny’s heartstrings, 😭.
The lack of next gen leadership is on account of business-level issues that exploded in ‘24. CFO Brook McGuire has the scoop: