LIVERMORE FALLS ADVERTISER • June 24, 2021
Richard and Rebecca Murphy bought 25 acres at 258 Lane Road in 2003, built a home that year and planted the first apple trees in 2004. Now there are 150 trees of at least 51 varieties in different stages of maturity. “Most of the trees are semi-dwarf, particularly M7 rootstock,” Richard said during a recent tour of the orchard. “It’s kind of the workhorse of the Northeast. I thought, ‘Let’s build an orchard where people want to come because I have so many different kinds of apples’,” Murphy said. “I’m not going to grow acres and acres of MacIntosh. They’re everywhere. I have all the special varieties from countries around the world, antiques, heirlooms and new college varieties with low disease.”