An illustration of what John Maher’s ladder artwork will look like. Artist John Maher of Mosier, Oregon, is turning his talents to creating a huge outdoor project featuring dozens of colorfully painted fruit ladders that will appear in a conga-line formation, along highways in the Columbia Gorge. “Getting the public’s attention for family farms is the goal of the project,” he said. Oregon growers John Byers from The Dalles and Mathew Kiernan of Mosier have contributed ladders, but Maher needs more for what he calls Running Fruit Ladders—Large Art for Small Farms. A hundred would make half a mile of […]