The Swanson family’s Mountain View Apple Orchards is located in the Bitterroot Valley, where pioneers from the eastern United States established the first orchards The Swanson family had one of the first apple orchards planted in western Montana and has one of the few remaining. And Lukas Swanson, great-grandson of pioneer Charles Swanson, aims to keep their Mountain View Apple Orchards thriving into the future. Charles Swanson established the orchard near Corvallis in 1909, in the early days of western Montana’s apple industry. Many people moved from the East to plant apples in the Bitterroot Valley early last century, lured […]