Styer Orchards is a beloved institution in Lower Bucks.
Kids who grew up here will tell you about their first school trip to the orchard and if they re old enough they ll tell you about making their own cider on the old press. Families flock there on October weekends for pumpkins and apples. And their cider doughnuts are a treat any time of the year and their pies are a staple on many holiday tables here.
But, a new lease agreement approved last week peels back that warm narrative, revealing and reopening a 20-year feud between the two families that have run the orchard and farm market on the township-owned property.