Private company

Liberty Orchards

Logo: libertyorchards.com3

Packaged food products company

Liberty Orchards is a packaged food products company located in Cashmere, Washington. Founded as an apple farm in 1918 by Armenian business partners Armen Tertsagian and Mark Balaban, the company moved into canning and then confectionery during the 1930s and 1940s. On March 16, 2021, Liberty Orchards president Greg Taylor announced that the company would close permanently on June 1, 2021.The company was luckily purchased before the close date and are still open to this day.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

1918Founded1
Aplets and Cotlets
Photo: Glane23, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons5

Liberty Orchards is a packaged food products company located in Cashmere, Washington. Founded as an apple farm in 1918 by Armenian business partners Armen Tertsagian and Mark Balaban, the company moved into canning and then confectionery during the 1930s and 1940s.2

Products and brands

  • candy

Listed on Wikidata.1

Aplets & Cotlets are Liberty Orchards' oldest and best known products. These two types of confection are mainly sold together in a single box; they are produced from a recipe for locoum using local apples and apricots.

Other flavors produced by the company include pineapple with macadamia nuts, strawberry with walnuts, orange with walnuts, peach with pecans, blueberry with pecans, and raspberry with pecans. They also produce sugar-free, nut-free and chocolate-covered varieties, as well as a number of traditional filled chocolates (truffle, caramel, and mint, for example). In 2009, the company has introduced a cherry-pecan locoum, as well as four varieties (mango, strawberry, watermelon and papaya) dusted with a sweet-sour-spicy coating.

Although many of these confections are marketed under American-style brand-names, they are referred to on product packaging as "Rahat Locoum." Since 2012, the company has also marketed a line of confections with special packaging under the name "Turkish Delights," which includes traditional Middle Eastern flavors such as rose-pistachio, orange-blossom-walnut, mint, and rose-lemon.

From Wikipedia’s article on Liberty Orchards, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

  1. 1918Founded Founded1

Funding

Where the company's money came from, by calendar year: private offerings filed with the SEC, federal grants, loans, contracts and other assistance from USAspending.gov, and PPP loans from the SBA. Each bar links to the records below.

Money received by year$326.6K 2020–2020
Money received by yearMoney received by year, 2020–2020: $326.6K in all. PPP loans $326.6K.$0$100K$200K$300K$400K2020 · PPP loans: $326.6K2020
Figures by year
YearPPP loansTotal
2020$326.6K$326.6K

PPP loans

Paycheck Protection Program loans of $150,000 and up, approved April 2020 to July 2021, from the SBA6. Matched to this company by name and state.

  1. Apr 28, 2020$326.6K PPP loan (first draw) from U.S. Bank, National Association6To LIBERTY ORCHARDS CO., INC., Cashmere WA; $329.8K forgiven Apr 29, 2021