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From left: Alycia Martinez, Fernando Mora, Erica Robinson, Eli Mora and Marie Richardson collect apples for the Apples for Everyone event at Johnston Fruit Farms in Swanton, Ohio. Alycia, Erica and Eli are children of Martha Mora, and Fernando is Eli's dad.

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Customers use a fruit collector to reach apples high up the tree.

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Johnston Fruit Farms owner Martha Mora, left, stops sorting apples long enough to chat with a tour group from Holy Trinity Catholic Preschool in Assumption, Ohio.

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Johnston Fruit Farms employee Henrietta Doyle, left, helps customer Carol Merillat with apple selection in the Swanton, Ohio store.

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Johnston Fruit Farms co-owner Fernando Mora, center in white shirt, and his employees pick apples.

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Aaron Mora, 7, checks on one of his two bee hives at his Swanton, Ohio farm. Aaron and his brother Eli, 9, are responsible for the hives.

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Fernando Mora, co-owner of Johnston Fruit Farms, adjusts the tractor for cultivating strawberry plants.

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Eli Mora, 9, and his brother Aaron, 7, pick blueberries on their family farm on Swanton, Ohio. They are the sons of Johnston Fruit Farm owners Martha and Fernando Mora.

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The Johnston Fruit Farms store.

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The Mora family from left: Pete and Alycia Martinez, Martha Mora, Aaron Mora, Erica Robinson, Eli Mora and Fernando Mora. at Johnston Fruit Farms in Swanton, Ohio. Martha and Fernando own the farm.

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Alycia Martinez, daughter of owner Martha Mora, left, poses for a photo while picking apples for the Apples for Everyone event.

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Johnston Fruit Farms employee Henrietta Doyle, left, helps customer Carol Merillat with apple selection.

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A tour group from Holy Trinity Catholic School in Assumption, Ohio open their umbrellas as they prepare for their ride to the apple orchard.

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Longtime employee Carl McDowell prepares a field for event parking at Johnston Fruit Farms.

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Kathy Heisinger bakes doughnuts.

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Crew leader Joel Jimenez cleans up the horse pasture.

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Crew leader Joel Jimenez feeds the goats at Johnston Fruit Farms in Swanton, Ohio.

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Kitchen manager Karen Louy carries freshly made doughnuts from the kitchen to the store.

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Owners Fernando and Martha Mora cultivate a strawberry field.

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From left: Aaron Mora, 7, mother Martha Mora, and Eli Mora take care of a bee hive behind their home.

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Johnston Fruit Farms owner Martha Mora works in a strawberry patch.

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Farm owner Fernando Mora, left, and crew leader Joel Jimenez adjust a tractor before cultivating a strawberry field.

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Workers cultivate a strawberry field at Johnston Fruit Farms in Swanton, Ohio.

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