Growing with growers since 1946
  • February 15th 2012 Issue
  • Story by Richard Lehnert
  • A flair for selling fruit

    Young growers bring new energy to eastern orchards.

    Left: Sidney Kuhn, 32, owns the direct marketing arm of Kuhn Orchards. Right: David Wenk and uncle carry on the family farm that dates to 1796. Richard Lehnert Sidney Kuhn and Ben Wenk are neighbors, as the crow flies, but they’re 15 miles apart on the winding mountain roads of Adams County, Pennsylvania. They ­didn’t know each other as kids—five years difference in age is huge when you’re young. They met as founding members of the Young Grower Alliance in 2005.     Kuhn worked on building membership in that new organization—developing an e-mail list of more than 100—and later became […]

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