When fruit grower Jim Richards met Mark “Coach” Smallwood at Richards’ apple orchard in Ruscombmanor Township on Thursday morning, the two just could not stop talking.
That’s understandable. Both have the same interest: organic farming.
“We do spray our apples and peaches,” Richards said as he showed Smallwood the apple trees on his 3-acre farm, J&S Fruit Farm on Pricetown Road. “But we stop early in August. We minimize the spraying. If I could go organic, I would get away from spraying.” – Read more at The Reading Eagle →