The annual Sunflower Experience at Trunnell’s Farm Market has brought in visitors from all over the tri-state for six years, and Saturday’s kickoff was no different.
Kentucky orchards survive April cold snap
NATHAN HAVENNER, Owensboro Messenger-Inquirer
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Kevin Trunnell inspects a limb with small peach buds on a peach tree in his orchard at Trunnell s Farm Market, Thursday, Apr. 22, 2021, in Utica, Ky. (Greg Eans/The Messenger-Inquirer via AP)Greg Eans/AP
UTICA, Ky. (AP) While late April brings to mind thoughts of warm weather, blooming flowers and summer waiting in the wings, a late season snow this week left local orchards working to protect their crops.
Kevin Trunnell, owner of Trunnell’s Farm Market in Utica, said Thursday that he has a peach orchard and also grows strawberries, two fruits known to be sensitive to cold snaps.
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