Always the educator

摘要

After spending decades helping Michigan apple growers, Phil Schwallier is now just an apple grower himself.Schwallier, 69, retired from Michigan State University last year, after nearly 42 years as an extension educator in greater Grand Rapids, which contains the Fruit Ridge, the state's largest apple region. He's only working for himself now on about 100 acres of apples, facing the same challenges and opportunities that face any other commercial grower.