So begin 13-year-old Claire DeBoer’s reflections on growing up on a Michigan apple orchard in 1944. While Claire’s older brother is overseas fighting, German POW’s are put to work in her ...

The time she spent on the apple orchard her grandfather managed became the backdrop for her new book, "Enemies in the Orchard." During World War II, the local farm used German Prisoners of War to ...

German-owned company Beehive Demetra Ltd purchased Patutahi orchard near Gisborne, a 61ha site with an apple orchard on about 40ha of it. Photo / Craigmore Sustainables A foreign interest that ...