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Nets installed to protect precious fruits
Des filets installés pour protéger les fruits précieux
September 27, 2018
Story by Mario Pitre
Anyone driving through apple country in Franklin will likely have noticed the nets adorning numerous rows of apple trees at Stevenson Orchard this year. Following a devastating hail storm that wiped out the majority of their apples last summer, the family-run orchard decided to install hail nets on certain varieties to guarantee this year’s harvest.
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"We’ve never seen a storm of this magnitude," says Fred Stevenson of Stevenson Orchard in Franklin. "It’s like you took a 12 gauge to them," he says of the damage to the apples.