NOVEMBER 2013 | SEctiON A
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ins full of multicolored apples fill the barn at
The Apple Works orchard as customers peruse
this year’s fruit harvest.
Bright red Gala apples, sweet and juicy, are piled
near the Daybreak Fujis, with their muted orange
hues....
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NOVEMBER 2013 | SEctiON A
B
ins full of multicolored apples fill the barn at
The Apple Works orchard as customers peruse
this year’s fruit harvest.
Bright red Gala apples, sweet and juicy, are piled
near the Daybreak Fujis, with their muted orange
hues. Tart and tangy Cortlands, complex green-yellow
Mutsus and Golden Delicious varieties have crowds
packed around them.
The fruit has been harvested over the previous two
months, as employees readied themselves for the rush
of autumn. After almost a year of preparation, the
make-or-break time of year is finally upon them.
“We work all year for September and October,”
explains Sarah Brown, owner of The Apple Works.
“Those are the biggest months for us.”
The Brown family founded its apple orchard near
Trafalgar in 1989. What started out as a business with
a few hundred trees has now grown into a thriving
agritourism operation with more than 7,000 trees
that draws thousands of people to the area each fall.
The hilly terrain around Trafalgar,
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