BY JOYCE BUPP the retail sales market at Raab
Staff Correspondent Farms is like taking a stroll
DALLASTOWN Stepping into through a giant harvest-season
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easonal crush to market fre' m ice ly "ged displays, quality produce and pick-your-own
ioe Raab grabs a minute (rotn his full schedule to take a look ' aithfUl cuslomers st(winB b> l, " iuen,l > ,01 ' lresh lru,ts a " d
it the Red Bartlett pears in the orchard. vegetables year round.
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In one comer are rows of
baskets, red and green with ap
ples. Containers sit, filled with
pears, in another direction. Fat
peaches hang over the edges of
cartons lining the sales stand,
while customers depart lugging
bags of tomatoes, cantaloupes,
peppers, squash.
Traffic outside the complex of
buildings flows constantly, as
produce buyers mix with
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Bethlehem
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R D #1
Honesdale PA 18431
PH 717 253 1612
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PO Bo* 47
Nazareth PA 18064
PH 215 759 1331
wholesalers’ trucks, while work
crews haul in loads of filled
baskets and head back over the hill
with a stack of empties for the next
trip.
Calling the plays, off in the
background of this fruitful fiefdom
of activity, in an office surrounded
by packers and sorters, fruit boxes
and horticultural equipment, is P.
Joseph Raab on the telephone
again.
Raab’s Market is busy place
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Joe Raab, long time fruitgrower,
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D. E. SMITH, INC
Milllmtown PA 17059
PH 717 436 2151
MATTSON ENTERPRISES
1605 Mt Hohyßoad
Burlington NJ 08016
PH 609 386 1603
PHIC BUILDERS
435 King Street
Pottstown, PA 19464
PH 215-582-4050
pears, at 73,
community activist and former
county commissioner, tackles the
horticulture business with an
energetic enthusiasm and op
timism that has won him a host of
friends among both agriculture
and business.
Affectionately dubbed the “Jolly
Green Giant” by some of his
closest friends, Eaab leaves the
phone, whizzes out of the office,
directs a wagonful of bell peppers
toward the loading dock, hails a
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