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A Few Bad Apples and After the Fall Cider use sustainable methods to produce hard cider products and pay homage to the history of cider in Pennsylvania.

Many local organic farmers had their best season ever in 2020. But with this year’s inflation at its highest since 1990, farms are facing uncertainty in 2022 as they grapple with rising costs of farming inputs like fertilizer, seed, propane and greenhouse plastic.

Kris B. Mamula Associated Press ROCHESTER, Pa. (AP) – Ten years of planning, ten years of want ads and hope and worry ended one day in October when Don Kretschmann realized it wasn't going to work; no one was going to step in. This was going to be the last harvest at Kretschmann Family Organic Farm. Come spring, the Beaver County farm will be idle for the first time since he first turned the soil there in the spring of 1979. Mr. Kretschmann is retiring after failing to find someone to take over his 80-acre operation. "I just thought somebody would come," the 71-year-old self-taught farmer s...

NewsSportsEntertainmentLifestyleOpinionUSA TODAYObituariesE-EditionLegals Retired Kretschmann owners ponder future of Beaver County farm Retired farmer Don Kretschmann is considering “hundreds” of new inquiries to take over his family’s produce operation, while daughter Maria Kretschmann plans to launch an initiative helping people of color break into farming. NEW SEWICKLEY TWP. — Maria Kretschmann wants to share her family’s time-honored Beaver County farmland with historically disadvantaged growers. By this time next year, the daughter of Kretschmann Family Organic Farm owner Don ...

A local farmer who is retiring hoped someone would continue with his organic farm in Beaver County, Pennsylvania.