Harlan County Roadside Farm Market
Harlan County Farm Bureau’s president and Young Farmer Committee toured the Apple Tree Farm in Cumberland, KY. It is Harlan County’s new official KYFB Roadside Farm Market. The Apple Tree grows a large variety of apples, including the Honey Crisp, Scarlet Gala, Winesap, Empress Gold, Mollies Delicious, Ginger Gold, Jonamac, Suncrisp and the Ida Red. They sell the apples to Harlan, Perry, Knott and Letcher County School and also to Food City which distributes them out of all their stores. The rest of the apples are sold at their market. The Apple Tree’s phone number is 606-589-5735.
KFB Spotlight
- Kentucky Farm Bureau Launches Kentucky Farmland Transition Initiative to Address Loss of Farm Acreage Across the State
- April 9, 2024
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The Kentucky Farmland Transition Initiative is a strategic project focused on helping farm families find ways to keep their acreage in active agricultural production as they consider the future of that land.
- KFB President Eddie Melton: Sustaining the Future of Kentucky Farms
- April 8, 2024
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Kentucky Farm Bureau is announcing the creation of the Kentucky Farmland Transition Initiative which will help get us on a sustainable path to ensure our farmland remains in agricultural production.
- Making Efforts Now to Save Farmland for the Future
- April 8, 2024
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When farmland goes out of production, it just doesn’t come back. Or if farmland is bought by investors outside of the rural community of which it is a part, the farmers, who have lived there, are no longer around to be a vital part of that community.