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Sunrise Orchards
Family-operated apple orchard in Gays Mills — the apple capital of Wisconsin — at the western edge of the Driftless Area. Operating since the early 1900s on Crawford County coulee terrain that the apple industry recognized as some of the best apple-growing ground in the upper Midwest. Today: 50,000+ trees across multiple orchards, 30+ varieties, packing operations supplying regional grocery, an on-site farm market, and a fall pick-your-own season that draws visitors from across the upper Midwest. A working substrate-builder anchor for the Driftless directory cluster.
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Sunrise Orchards is one of several century-plus apple orchards in and around Gays Mills, the small Crawford County village that has been the apple capital of [[viroqua|Wisconsin]] since the early 20th century. The [[driftless-area|Driftless]] coulees produce apples of unusually good quality — cool nights, well-drained sloped ground, the long growing season of the upper Mississippi corridor — and Gays Mills’s annual fall apple festival has been a regional fixture for decades. Sunrise’s orchards (50,000+ trees) sit on coulee slopes around the village, with a packing-and-storage operation and an on-site farm market.
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Crawford County’s apple industry was nearly destroyed by a 1996 flood that wiped out a substantial portion of [[greenwich-village|the village]]‘s orchards and infrastructure. The recovery — over twenty years — is part of why the surviving operations like Sunrise have such durable place-attachment. The county’s apple-growing [[eating-the-landscape|identity]] is held by a small number of family operations who chose to rebuild rather than relocate.
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- Contained by: [[driftless-area]]
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- Driftless Area regional apple orchard anchor in Gays Mills, the apple capital of Wisconsin
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