The Young Grower Alliance is growing. It’s still shy of its official fourth birthday, but the YGA has expanded beyond its southeastern Pennsylvania roots to the broader Mid-Atlantic and New England fruit regions. And five YGA members established a Midwest beachhead in a panel presentation at the Great Lakes Fruit, Vegetable and Farm Market EXPO in Grand Rapids, Michigan, in December. Their vision is geographically even wider. Why not go national? The common factor in the current roster of about 125 members is that they belong to the “next generation,” the successors to management and ownership of family specialty-crop operations. […]