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“If We Were in the Wholesale Business, We’d Be Out of Business”: How Applecrest Flipped From 90% Wholesale to 80% Retail by Letting Everyone In Free (14 Lessons Every Farmer Can Use)
How a 113-year-old New Hampshire orchard escaped the wholesale trap with free admission, 34 festival days, hot cider donuts and pick-your-own, plus 14 lessons any farmer can put to work.
Stephen Loke
24 min read
A Freeze Killed Their Crop in 1974. Now Visitors Pay $10 Just to Get Through the Gate: 13 Carter Mountain Orchard Lessons Any Farmer Can Steal
How the Chiles family turned a 1974 freeze-out, a card table and a cigar box into Carter Mountain Orchard, one of Virginia's best-known pick-your-own destinations, plus 13 lessons any farmer can steal.
Stephen Loke
22 min read
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