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- Christy Frank, Mason.
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Tuesday, November 19, 2002
Irons
Fruit Farm
Apples, apple cider, apple
butter just part of the fall
fare at Irons Fruit Farm.
Visitors can buy or pick fruit,
pick up baked goods, and take
orchard tours and hayhdes.
The Cincinnati Enquirer/
MICHAEL SNYDER
MORE INFO
Address: 1640 Stubbs Mill
Road
By Walt Schaefer
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The Irons family bought the 200-
acre farm in the early 1900s, said
Dave Irons, son of owners Gayle
and Ron Irons. It was first a dairy
farm and remained so into the early
1960s when the family decided to
convert to a fruit farm and began
planting orchards.
The old dairy cow milking area was
converted to a bakery as the fruit
farm business expanded and began
luring family visitors from throughout
the Tristate, Mr. Irons said.
Early on, the fruit farm brought in
many families who picked fruit or
bought it in large quantities to can or
jar and preserve through the cold
months. "We used to get people
who would take hundreds of pounds
at a time," Mr. Irons said.
Nowadays, few families can or jar
fruits or vegetables and the farm
has become an "agri-tainment"
business a place for families to
spend a day picking or buying fruits,
visiting the bakery, taking a hayrlde
through the orchards, finding a
Halloween pumpkin or tackling the
corn maze. The farm even offers
educational tours to schools.
Back to Great Neighborhoods:
Lebanon
Founded: Early 1900s
Quotes: "I come every year,
just once a year, for pumpkins,
the hayrlde, gourds. We buy
apple fritters and apple cider
and just to look around. It's a
family outing one of our
favorite annual trips."
- Scott Galster, Mason.
"We come here in the fall.
From September to November
we'll visit maybe eight times.
We buy cider and cider
donuts. Their pies are great.
We pick apples. Our whole
family does it. It's a great
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