
Whoever said "the apple doesn't fall far from the tree" must have had Wesley Mason's family in mind. Apple growing has been a part of the family tree since 1939.
Today, grandsons Stephen, Jimmy and Bryon Wells look back with pride at their grandfather's accomplishment of laying down roots to one of the largest apple growing operations on Canada's East Coast.
Now, wit
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about 400 acres of their own added to the output of approximately ten local farms,
they in turn see still greater opportunities, and are equally determined to
make Mason's select Valley apples available to more and more people.
By working together in the tradition of Nova Scotia families, and using the experience and knowledge only a lifetime involvement in the apple industry can bring, the Wells brothers have made Mason's the pick of the crop. They have, without a doubt, become the "apple of their grandfather's eye."