Kingsbury's Orchard

As you ride along the rural roads in Upper Montgomery County, you will still see a large number of beautiful farms with historic homes and barns that serve as a connection with our past. Every one of these farms has a story. Our story started in 1907, when Edwin and Minerva Horine stumbled across a parcel of land that looked like the perfect place to live and raise a family.

For 25 years, the Horine family farmed the land in a very traditional way, as thousands of farm families did during that era.  In 1932, Phil Horine, the eldest son, had an idea to help his farm family weather the Depression – PEACHES!!  While not commonly grown in the area, Phil introduced peaches to the community and found that the trees flourished and produced fruit with a distinctively sweet flavor.

Phil had a natural penchant for growing fruit and devoted his entire life to the farm.  As the years passed, his focus turned toward finding a way to continue the family farm.  He found his answer when Roland Kingsbury married his granddaughter, Peggy Horine.  Roland and Peggy Kingsbury took charge of the farming operation in  1958, managing a Holstein dairy herd and peach orchard together for more than 50 years.