*2O Lancaster Farming, Saturday, July 11,1981
BY LAURIE DOBROSKY
YORK The Pennsylvania the day. Frightened passengers
Vegetable Growers Association’s jumped to the ground, some
annual tour, held here on Monday stumbling, while others stayed on
and Tuesday of this week, was board until the wagon slid to a stop
marred by a freak accident almost in a road ditch,
at its outset. While the rest of the 90 tour
One of the wagons in the tour participants anxiously awaited the
caravan, carrying 25 people, arrival of the local ambulance
skidded in the mud as it traveled crew, others went to the aid of the
down a steep, dirt road on Raab’s fallen passengers.
John Fitz,
members of
York County
discusses his vegetable operation with the 90
the Vegetable Growers Association who toured
this week.
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Two people had to be taken to the
York Hospital and are being
treated for injuries suffered in the
accident. Theodore Peak from
Elyria, Ohio and his wife Hariette
are in serious and satisfactory
conditions, respectively.
The injured couple had been
visiting the area on a vacation and
decided to join the tour after
having read about it in a local
paper.
According to York County Ex
tension Agent John Smith, Mrs.
Peak admitted she pulled her
husband off the sliding wagon, and
now questions whether her
husband might have been unin
jured if he had stayed on board
thus preventing the fall.
After the police reports and
general confusion was put in order,
the tour got underway again. This
time participants boarded buses
and private cars to continue their
four-stop trip.
The tour, sponsored by the
Pennsylvania Vegetable Growers
Association and the Cooperative
Extension Service, included the
major vegetable growing farms in
York County; and also included a
number of processing plants and
markets in the area.
John Fitz, the local tour chair
man, welcomed the vegetable
growers to his farm Monday
morning. The Fitz farm, operated
by three generations, raises sweet
com, parsley, cauliflower, sugar
peas, red beets, peppers,
tomatoes, and the list goes on,
which are sold through two local
farmer’s markets and a roadside
stand. Their aim in producing
crops is to hit the early market and
“to raise only what we will sell,”
said Fitz. t
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The Fitzes also purchase
produce from the Baltimore
wholesale market to keep their
shelves stocked year round with
fresh fruits and vegetables.
Unlike the Fitzes who go off the
farm for some of their produce,
Joseph Raab, Dallastown, raises
all the fruits and vegetables he
sells on his 137 acre farm. Using
‘pick your own’ on selected crops
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and a farm market for'the others,
he markets a great variety of
produce, with 77 acres set up for
raising vegetables and 60 acres
planted in fruit trees.
It was while touring the Raab
fields that the unfortunate wagon
accident occurred. As a result of
the time delay, the tour of the
Summers Canning Company was
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