Stan McCumber, right, of Unity, works on a tangle of root suckers at the base of an apple tree while pruning with Ian Ludders, middle, of Unity, and Rafe Wolman, left, of Greenfield, Mass., at Riverview Farm in Plainfield, N.H. Wednesday, March 18, 2015. Ludders has pruned with McCumber and Wright for 14 years and Wolman is in his first season learning to prune. McCumber and Wright once traveled between orchards in Maine, New Hampshire and Massachusetts, living on the farms while they worked. (Valley News – James M. Patterson)

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