Raspberries & Blackberries
N.C. State, North Carolina Research Campus Team to Help Farmers Enhance Crops
Steve French looks over his blackberry and raspberry rows at Summerberry Farm on Rimer Road. Independent Tribune more »
For five weeks in summer, Pullins family comes together to sell 28 acres of berries
Raspberries are a scratchy, labor-demanding crop, and certainly harvest season is the most intensive – and important – time of the year. That fits with the folks who operate Champaign Berry Farm. Each year, they... more »
Frozen Easter Spoils Fruit Crops Across Eastern U.S.
A wave of Arctic cold swept over the eastern United States a few days before Easter, doing extensive damage to fruit over a wide area. “Now you know why they call it the Corn Belt... more »
Couple Trades in Teaching for Farming
Two Minnesota growers’ journey into farming began more than 32 years ago in the Dominican Republic. Charlie and Carol Johnson were teaching at a school in that country when a group of Texas A&M University... more »
Caneberries Rule for Oregon Couple
Like the huge 207-year-old Douglas fir lying at the entrance to their Boring, Ore., farm, caneberry growers Tony and Julie Schedeen have had their farming ups and downs. But unlike the lifeless log felled by... more »
Go-getter Family Builds Farm Market
For Bill and Michelle Bakan of Maize Valley Farm Market in Hartville, Ohio, just being big farmers wasn’t going to save the farm. They needed to sell something that made more money than corn and... more »
Grower Finds Success At Supermarkets
From mid-May until the end of June, blueberries fly out of the packing plant at Sweet Berry Farms. In those six weeks, three million pounds of blueberries will be sold, bringing in the whole year’s... more »
Oklahoma Grower Shares Tips and Sound Techniques
Lavon Williams has been growing blueberries for only a year, but he’s already learned enough to show other people how to do it. On June 11, Williams will host a group from the Kerr Center... more »
Thousands drive for miles to visit Edwards Apple Orchard
It’s 80 snarled-traffic miles from Chicago to the corn and soybean fields around Rockford, Ill., but lots of people make the trek, sometimes several times, between Labor Day and Thanksgiving. And it’s not to look... more »
Large East Coast Customer Base Makes It All Work
When Pam and Gary Mount bought Terhune Orchards in 1975, they weren’t just looking to run a farm. They wanted to create a community gathering place, and they seem to have succeeded. More than 500,000... more »
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