SEGMENT: FAMILY BUSINESSrnFARM BUSINESS
Betty Sirles>ISM Walk & Talk Interviews>Sirles, Section 1
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- FARM BUSINESS
- Betty shows pictures of the "first family", the Rendlemans, that bought the orchard 135 years ago. Other pictures show the bushel-basket era from the 1930s and 1940s before the technology used today. The Orchard also has a retail store that sells other family farm's products as well as the peaches, cookbooks and other products from the farm. Peaches are refrigerated immediately to stop ripening.
- CROPS
- Betty shows the Jim Dandy peach, though they have twenty varieties. It's very reliable, large, yellow flesh peach. They've been growing it for about fifteen years. A picking cycle for each variety takes about two weeks and about four pickings. They like to have a peach with a lot of color, red and yellow. Betty talks about the different roles of laborers and the duties they have.
