When nights get crisp and leaves start to turn and it's time for Bergton's Martin Luther Lutheran Church to boil up a batch of apple butter, a church member calls Showalter's Orchard in Timberville to request Rome Beauty apples.
It's a good cooking apple, according to Shannon Showalter, the orchard's owner. "It's dry, it holds its shape," he said. "If you're doing baked apples and you don't want all that juice, it's good."
Still, Showalter, 40, doesn't think much of the Rome B...
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