Growing with growers since 1946
  • February 15th 2012 Issue
  • Story by Richard Lehnert
  • Retail is cool

    Ben, 26, carries on the transition from growing fruit for processing to growing fruit for retail sales Richard Lehnert What Ben Wenk is building on has been a long time in the making.     His father, Dave, came back to the family business in Aspers, Pennsylvania, in 1980 with a degree in horticulture from Penn State.  His cousin John followed in 1983, forming a partnership with Dave and John’s father, Donald. Then came years of expansion in the fruit business and a gradual transition from growing apples and tart ­cherries for processing to fresh market and then to retail. Ben […]

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