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hannock Farmer’s Co-op began life in 1945 as the packing/storage facility for the Washington Apple Growers. Other medium sized facilities still standing include the Flint Hill Packing Shed, now providing cold-storage for books, etc., at the north end of that village and Foster’s Packing House, a mile or so further north on US 522 at Hittle’s Mill Road, just below the entrance to Wakefield Country Day School.
Various other smaller buildings used for sorting/grading/ and retail sales of apples remain. Some now have different uses, however others play a continuing role in the efforts of longtime orchards with familiar family names such as Lee, Williams, Alther, Moore, and Jenkins.
Work and worry
Like many agricultural endeavors, orchards are pretty to look at for the casual observer like you and me and a continual opportunity for work and worry on the part of the owner/operators. Weather, competition, the intensity and degree of manual labor required for care and harvesting, and bugs, the inevitable bugs, all do their part to take a pinch of the fun out it all for the growers.
Apples are relatively tolerant of cold but may still have buds ‘zapped’ by the occasional
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