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Like many people around the world,
Derek Kilmer felt alarmed during the first three months of the pandemic. His family farm in Martinsburg, West Virginia, which his grandfather started in the 1940s, was in jeopardy.
Kilmer’s Farm Marketspecializes in growing orchard fruit for schools, including some in Virginia’s Arlington and Loudoun counties. “School just stopped everywhere and it was just panic mode,” he says.