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Before the apples, come the cherries, at least at Apple Hill Orchard near Bayfield, Wisconsin.
The orchard bears the name of Bayfield’s beloved fruit, but for a few weeks in the beginning of July, the orchard’s 700 trees ripe with sweet cherries win the most admiration.
This year, when cherry lovers return to pick their own or buy cherries already picked, they’ll also meet the new Apple Hill owners, Justin Sexton and Mackenzie Smith, who just bought the orchard from retiring Bill and Claudia Ferraro.
Justin, the head women’s soccer coach at Northland College, has worked seasonally at the orchard since 1998, when, as a Northland student, he spotted a “help wanted” sign on a bulletin board and headed up Highway 13 from Ashland to Bayfield – with no clue that someday he’d be a partner in owning the orchard.
In fact, Justin started at Apple Hill before it
Continue to read this article in Lake Superior Magazine.
