As the incoming managing editor of Good Fruit Grower, each day I walk past a framed copy of the magazine’s first issue, published in April 1946. Decades before the Internet was to transform communications and contribute to the closure of newspapers and magazines, Editor F.W. Shields wondered if his ­publication would last. “My stomach is doing flip-flops, and my heart seems to have moved up into my throat,” he wrote. Today, Shields would be proud that his publication survives and thrives. Good Fruit Grower remains an indispensable source of news and information to advertisers and readers in 43 countries. The […]