Article: Pennsylvania Farmers Target Colleges as Market for Produce.

The Morning Call, Allentown, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Dec. 19--Each week in fall, Indian Orchards of Middletown Township, Delaware County, delivers about five bushels of apples to nearby Swarthmore College.

"Their student body was eager to get real apples instead of waxed apples," says Nancy Bernhardt, whose grandparents started the 15-acre orchard nearly 100 years ago.

It's not a large quantity of fruit, but it's an important part of her business, said Bernhardt, one of 40 representatives of farms and colleges in southeastern Pennsylvania who met last week to discuss mutual business opportunities.

By selling directly to colleges, farmers ...

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