Why Your Nomination Counts for Apple Grower of the Year Honor
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Robert Black
“When we planted ‘Gala’, people started eating more fresh apples. We want noisy apples – they have to crunch when you bite into them.”
– Robert Black, 2020 Apple Grower of the Year
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Posted by Paul Rusnak|March 5, 2021
One of the highlights of my job is calling an apple grower every spring to let them know they’ve been named
American Fruit Grower
Western Fruit Grower
® magazines’ Apple Grower of the Year. I get all sorts of reactions, from tremendous gratitude you can almost feel the emotion through the phone to downright disbelief. You can put Robert Black, our 2020 winner, in that latter category.