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Con Traas parents
moved from southwest Holland to Ireland in the late 1960's and
began apple growing at The Apple Farm, between Cahir and Clonmel
just beside the main Limerick-Waterford road. Traas father had
been involved in fruit growing since childhood, and quickly set
about establishing orchards, which are today planted with a
dozen varieties of eating apples, including Discovery, James
Grieve, Cox's Pippin, and Bramley's seedling cooking apples,
plum varieties such as Opal and Victoria, and raspberries and
strawberries.
By the 1970's, the family realized there was no structure to
enable them to sell their fruit locally, so they opened a shop
at the farm. "Basically a barn from which we retail most of
what we produce from the 30 acres of fruit," says Con.
Taken From The Irish Times Weekend Review October 31st 2000
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