Kai Wiens stopped growing strawberries and cherries. Instead, he bet everything on peaches and it’s paying off. His farm sits in Ontario’s “fruit belt,” where Niagara-on-the-Lake’s unique microclimate produces 90 per cent of the province’s tender fruit crop. Walk through Wiens’ orchards today and you’ll find 140 acres of peach trees and just five acres of plums. Why all in on peaches? The breeding of earlier ripening peach varieties transformed …
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