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hello welcome to Kate's Ag today i'm here at an apple orchard in Ontario Canada
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hello welcome to Kate's Ag today i'm here at an apple orchard in Ontario Canada
with Greg Ardiel partner in Ardiel Acres Limited. and you're going to be sharing a little bit about your family operation and your apple orchard yeah
that's right so we uh my dad my brother and i all farm together here in the southern georgian bay
area of ontario uh we grow about 330 acres of orchard about half high density half standard
and are consistently uh transitioning towards more high density all the time that's amazing
now what year was your farm founded or we moved to the area in 1920 so 101 years now and what
generation are you i'm fourth generation my brother and i liam what is the timeline of
growing apples it's a long process start to finish our orchards we typically expect to last for 25 to
30 years from planting uh your a couple years from when you order the trees to when you receive them
and then four to six years before you're reaching uh sustainable production levels and then another
20 to 25 years of full production that's incredible and that's also very different
there's kind of heritage apple orchards yep yeah there's still some older varieties and different
uses for them whether it's in the fresh industry or the process and sauce industry now why do you
plant new trees after 25 years uh part of it has to do with variety changes and prayer has to do
with technology and innovation and keeping up with things keeping things modern and current
and becoming more efficient all the time and using best production practices and precision egg
what is the growing season of the apples uh we will typically well from january we'll spend a
lot of time in the shop working on equipment and a lot of office work reviewing numbers of blocks and
yields and making decisions on what comes out and what stays mid-march our workforce will arrive and
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