“I still got a paycheck some years when my mom and dad didn’t,” he said.
It wasn’t until the late ‘80s until the business began making a profit, Judah said.
When Jaemor Farms was just starting out, Jarl said he remembers using old hearses to transport peaches. He said his dad would buy them and cut their tops off. One of the altered hearses could carry up to 26 bushels of peaches, which equate to around 50 pounds each.
“I was crossing the railroad one time with a load of peaches on it, and here comes the blue lights,” Jarl recounted. “It was the state patrol, and the guy pulled up beside me and said, “What the hell is that?’ I said, ‘This is a peach wagon.’ He said, ‘What are you hauling?’ And I said, ‘We’re hauling dead-ripe peaches.’”
Luckily for Jarl, he said the officer left laughing and didn’t give him a ticket.
During the early years of Jaemor Farms, Jarl said the operation could run with two people on staff. Today, he said the business employs 40 people on the farm and around 55 people in the market, both part-time and full-time.
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