With 90 acres of farmland, Finley Family Farm was first established by Joanne Finley’s parents in 1957.
For Finley, farming goes back four generations, with her great grandfather and grandfather mostly farming cotton and peanuts. In Camp Hill, her father would peddle his crops to local grocery stores and farmers markets in Montgomery.
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