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more, outside jobs are becoming an integral part of how family farms stay in business. It’s apple time now, through the fall at Lee’s. Their orchard, on Orchard Lane, off US211, by Massie’s Comer is both one of the most convenient to get to, and one of the finest views available.
Moore’s Orchard, off the Fodderstack, has remained a thoroughly family operation. Run by Jonathan Moore and his father Lewis Moore Jr., they’ve also been in Rappahannock forever. “We’ve been here for, I guess, well over two hundred years. The house was built in 1810. We were here before the house,” Jonathan Moore related qualifying that “we’ve grown fruit for about a hundred years.” They should have Glohaven and Redhaven peaches this week, as well as Ozark Gold apples, a few varieties of plum, peppers and heirlocm tomatoes. In the cooling weather of the fall, many more apple varieties will be coming on line. “It gets pretty nuts here during apple season.”
Some of the big advantages ’of going to an orchard rather than a supermarket is the freshness, ripeness and flavor of the fruit. Jonathan Moore had this to say. “We try to pick only as much as we cm sell today. While fruit picked earlier
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