Harvest crews and orchard work in Edneyville
From late summer into November the orchards around Edneyville run seasonal crews who are in the rows all day, a long way from any building. Those Edneyville growers rent standard units with handwashing stations placed at the block entrances where the bin trucks already turn.
Placement in an Edneyville orchard is a compromise between the crew and the tractor. We set the Edneyville unit on the headland or the packing yard gravel, because a unit in a row costs the grower a pass and a unit at the bottom of the hill costs the pickers their break.
Packing houses and roadside stands across Edneyville
Packing and grading operations in Edneyville run hard for a short season, and the crew size can double week to week as the crop comes in. An Edneyville packing house keeps units on the yard gravel with service timed around the truck schedule rather than the middle of a shift.
Roadside stands and pick-your-own days bring the public into Edneyville on fall weekends. Those Edneyville bookings need an ADA accessible unit at the parking field and a handwashing station near the cider and doughnut window.
Slopes, spray roads and Edneyville access
Orchard roads through Edneyville are steep, narrow and built for a tractor rather than a tanker. A loaded truck cannot follow a spray road up a block, so the Edneyville driver stays on the graveled main lanes and the grower moves the unit where it is needed.
Weather runs the Edneyville calendar in both directions. A wet week turns those clay roads greasy and unsafe, while a hard early freeze changes the picking schedule entirely, so we keep the Edneyville service flexible through harvest.