Heuser named to IFTA Hall of Fame Wally Heuser played a major role in forming the Dwarf Fruit Tree Association. Its first meeting was held in March 1958, in an empty apple storage room at the Heuser family’s Hill Top Orchards at Hartford, Michigan. Heuser, then 27, helped lead a discussion on how to prune and train dwarf fruit trees. He hasn’t missed an annual meeting since. He served as president for the first four years and as a board member until about 1975. He returned to the board in 1997 and retired from the board this spring. Over the […]