HUGUS FRUIT FARM

With farm family roots in historic Fairfield County, we grow 30 acres of fruit trees perched atop beautiful Appalachian foothills... Local stories tell of a visit by Johnny Appleseed to Sarah Sain and her children, who once lived on this farm. Whether the story is legend or fact, the Hugus family continue today in the tradition of growing apples and other good produce on these rolling hills... A portion of what now is Hugus Fruit Farm came as a gift from William Wikoff to his daughter Berenice in the early 1900s. In agriculture, Berenice and Ray Hugus were innovative for their time, plowing contour ridges to reclaim badly eroded hillside fields. The contour ridges served to catch rain and enhance soil drainage for the apples and peach trees they planted there. In their early years they also kept Leghorn chickens and later milked a Jersey dairy herd.

Primary location: Rushville United States