MONROEVILLE, N.J. — In this epicenter of New Jersey peach production, where the landscape filled with rows and rows of peach trees has helped boost the Garden State’s peach crop to fourth largest in the nation, farmer John Hurff finds himself doing things the old-fashioned way.
Several years ago, he decided to stop wholesaling and began selling his peaches, hand picked and hand sorted, directly to those who eat them.
And this summer, his customers will be treated to what he and others are calling a bumper crop. For a fruit so sensitive to the weather as peaches are, the weather has been “near perfect,” the state agriculture secretary says.
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