Twin Springs Fruit Farm is set on the south western edge of Adams County, Pennsylvania where we own some of the best fruit ground in the world. The farm is located on beautiful rolling hills, which are essential to prime fruit ground, as the air and water drainage are needed to assure a good crop and to help prevent spring frost damage.
The soil, Highfield silt loam is the product of glaciers grinding down the mountains thousands of years ago, releasing trace minerals which are then available to all of our crops. Trace minerals are what give our fruits and vegetables the extraordinarily high quality and flavor our long term customers have come to appreciate.
The original 22 acres were purchased in 1979, and an additional 50 acres were bought a couple of years later. Since then another 28 acres have been added. None of the acreage had any plantings worth maintaining, and the original four partners struggled to replant trees worth cultivating.
Around this time we started attending our first farmers’ markets in the D.C. area. It was a matter of survival, having lots of costs and debts; we couldn’t afford to do the same old business model of growing apples for factory use.
​Since the retirement of three of the original partners Twin Springs has become a true family farm, with Aubrey King and his two sons, Michael and Jesse, having taken over ownership and day to day operations at the farm. There are also a core group of key employees who make everything work.
