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Press Herald interviews Extension鈥檚 Handley on origin of U-pick farms

The interviewed David Handley, a vegetable and small fruit specialist at University of Maine Cooperative Extension, on how U-pick farms derived as a way for farmers to sell high value crops without having to pay workers to harvest them. 鈥淚t was mostly Depression-era children who liked a bargain and were willing to spend a day in the sun,鈥 Handley said.