The KAT Ranch, in the North Beach area north of Summerland, operated from 1941 until 1958.
The partners were Larry Kelly, Ted Atkinson and Eileen Tomlin, hence the name KAT.
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The ranch grew mostly peaches. Peaches have been grown in Summerland and the Okanagan Valley since before 1900.
Between the rows were tomatoes and zucca melon, a popular vegetable in the 1940s.
After Kelly鈥檚 death in 1958, the ranch was subdivided.
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