When Jeanne Isom planted 200 apple trees at her Blackfoot home in 1994, she never anticipated her family would own a thriving fruit farm 30 years later. Isom’s Fruit Farm, a six-acre orchard at 150 ...
That was in 2017. The first known apples appeared this year. Schuenemeyer estimated that there are “hundreds” but fewer than 1,000 Colorado Orange trees growing around the state. Ela Farms is one of ...
With over 54 rows of trees and 60 different apple varieties ... the health of their plants and community. “We sell wholesale apples to a cider mill in Howell, and they prefer certain varieties ...
PORT ONEIDA, MI - Volunteers at Sleeping Bear Dunes are on a mission to save historic apple trees inside the national lakeshore. Settlers came to this Lake Michigan shoreline in the 1850s and over ...
BEFORE THEY PEOPLE PLANTED APPLE TREES JUST AROUND THE EDGES OF THE ... WHILE OTHER FAMILY MEMBERS WORK ACROSS THE STREET IN THE WHOLESALE OPERATION. THAT’S A MAJOR PORTION OF OUR FARM.
Wholesale apple prices have fallen so low that some varieties aren’t worth the cost of labor to pick. Jonagold apples, for example, will rot on Donovan’s trees this season as picking them to ...