DESMOND CAMPBELL, WHO has been coming from Jamaica every fall for more than 40 years to pick fruit in Vermont, picks plums at Boyer’s Orchard in Monkton Monday afternoon. Independent Campbell/Trent Campbell
ADDISON COUNTY — A sunny May, a rain-rich early summer and some recent cold nights have produced the perfect recipe for the state’s apple crop, already dubbed by area orchardists to be the best in years.
“It’s a bumper crop,” said Bill Suhr of Shoreham’s Champlain Orchards, which grows more than 50 varieties of apples that are hanging heavy on the trees.
“We have a lot of fruit available.”
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