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  • April 15th 2006 Issue
  • Capturing customers with great-tasting fruit

    Bob Black and his family try to offer products that will tempt commuters to pull in off the highway.

    Catoctin Mountain Orchard sells fruit in quart, quarter peck, half peck, peck, and half bushel containers at its retail market. a peck is about 10 to 12 pounds. Bob Black channels his seemingly boundless energy into dreaming up more ways to attract customers to his farm and market, and keeping them there longer. On his 100 acres, he grows apples, peaches, plums, strawberries, blackberries, blueberries, cut flowers, grapes, cider, and a list of other fruits and vegetables that’s exhausting just to read. “I try to do so much,” Black reflected. And yet he’s far from running out of ideas. His […]

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