JORDAN, Minnesota — Like trying to count kernels in a corn pit, Chi Lu can't count the number of times she's been to Ferguson's Minnesota Harvest in Jordan.

"A lot," Lu said, laughing. "A lot."

On Wednesday, Lu played in the corn pit with her nephew, Lucas. It's her third year coming to the 300-acre orchard and farm.

"I have two young kids myself. They're 7 and 9. They're kind of our focus group for everything that we have here at the farm. We do it just to help create that place to have a fall tradition with your family," said Andy Ferguson, co-owner of Ferguson's Family of Farms.

The seed was planted more than 20 years ago when Andy's parents, Tom and Deb Ferguson, took over an orchard in Galesville in 2001.

Today, they have six different orchards with about 400,000 apple trees. Fou

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