BELMONT — Apple-picking season is in full swing, and despite drought conditions causing small obstacles, family-owned orchard owners say the beautiful weather has brought customers out in droves.

“We’re doing well,” Stone Mountain Farm owner Joe Rolfe said Friday, stepping off a forklift transporting a massive box of apples. “The weather has been good, so we are selling everything at a pretty good clip.”

Stone Mountain is a family business in the truest form. When Nelson and Theresa Rolfe originally bought the farm in 1963, the main crop was hay, but in 2009, their son Joe and his wife Cindy purchased it and turned it into a high-density apple orchard. Theresa, now 92 years old and still at the farm, and Joe’s brother Scott, brother-in-law Jim, and son Jacob all work a variety of jobs th

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