Tennanat Gersham puts empty apple boxes onto a trailer while Kendall Cooper moves full apple crates at Cooper Farms in Buckfield on Wednesday. This is Gersham’s 36th year coming from Jamaica to help with the apple harvest. Cooper said the apple harvest this fall “has been very good to us.” Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Kendall Cooper of Cooper Farms in Buckfield said Wednesday that many of the farm’s apples will be sold throughout New England, but some will go as far away as Boston and Florida. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal

Crates of apples are prepared for shipping at Cooper Farms in Buckfield on Wednesday. Kendall Cooper’s father, Kenneth Cooper, started growing apples in 1960. Kendall’s brother, Chris, owns the farm. Daryn Slover/Sun Journal


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