today in Massachusetts we r
a apple growing industry we've managed to grow
almost twenty million dollars about apple crop that's 12 in the united
states that value
and we're really lucky to have over 350
apple orchards in the commonweal in western Massachusetts in the four
counties it's incredibly beautiful
and just these counties alone there almost twenty
pick your own orchards
them
this is the time of year when the air is crisp and we just love being outdoors
and
yes the time when the apples are crisp and we can be part of the pick your own
operations will be buying apples in our local stores
farmers markets farm spam
this is a pact or troops in southern masked reasons
the sperm has been in the family since 1828 originally it was reversed by
farm has all firms were backed down
some very somethings home
true I am 1946 they sold the dairy herd
and we've been strictly Apple since then
more currently growing about 30 acres about polls
we start picking apples arm
later why we're picking right through the month of August September October
and two years ago we plan to some Pink Ladies sold I'll take a half a season
into november the shared
apples grown and Western Mass knowing when
help firms are you know a completely different from
stop by from the west coast the micro climates here the soils
here made for probably some top apple growing
regions
and apples have a long and rich history in New England
when the pilgrims came over there were no apples here in the new world
and they made the request in the Massachusetts Bay Colony brought seeds
and seedlings on their necks trips
and soon with in years anyone who was growing food which was most people there
would always be apple trees and some marvelous being done
and for many different reasons ever done for eating there were done for hard
cider and they were done even for livestock
my mother and father in law bought the farm in 1974
I came to work for in like anyone
folks are really thinking about Apple's come fall
kids go back to school at me air starts to Chris problem
on are our busiest weekends run through Labor Day
through Columbus Day weekend but we do keep going full
or more right through Thanksgiving
we've chose to up sell directly to the consumer said
with the size of our farm varieties that we when we grow
on it seems to have worked out best for direct marketer
for right to the consumer we've brown
I'll enjoyment a few willem
greeting the public and buying them to the farm
have them participate in the harvest am
we always enjoy this I'm here the harvest season typically
we always enjoy having people come out to the farm
it's a it's a great time here it's a it's a great business to be in because
when people come here to pick apples they are always happy their eyes having
a good time
and they just enjoy coming out to the farm
relaxing and similar economy weapons