{"id":103423,"date":"2026-05-08T04:33:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/103423\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T04:33:31","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T04:33:31","slug":"lebanon-county-orchard-closes-up-shop-for-the-season-after-losing-fruit-crops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/103423\/","title":{"rendered":"Lebanon County orchard closes up shop for the season after losing fruit crops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:WHTM;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc27.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"WHTM\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/232C1E841BC0BB863E0E9B74B574D5BADEBDCEDD7912DF6C56EBCD799BAD61E9\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefill_w0_h40;quality_80;format_webp\/\"\/><\/a>Fri, May 8, 2026 at 1:29 AM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"976\" height=\"649\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_whtm_articles_985\/b33d0e358a12d0b36a00587227806c8e.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Lebanon County orchard closes up shop for the season after losing fruit crops<\/p>\n<p>LEBANON COUNTY, Pa. (WHTM) \u2014 As crops are feeling the impact of the unusual cold April temperatures this year, a Lebanon County orchard announced Thursday it was closing up shop for the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Honey Bear Orchards, located off Thompson Avenue in Lebanon, lost all of its fruit crops after temperatures dipped to a low of 24 degrees overnight Monday, April 20, <a data-ylk=\"slk:according to a Facebook post.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1auMY8XEwQ\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">according to a Facebook post.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:Midstate farmers still feel sting of late April freeze;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/midstate-farmers-still-feel-sting-103834993.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Midstate farmers still feel sting of late April freeze\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Despite the orchard closing, hopes remain high for next spring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have never in our 40+ years of growing fruit experienced a freeze of this magnitude. But farmers are a resilient bunch, and come next Spring, we will give it another try,\u201d the orchard wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:Close;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"#sailthru-signup-widget\">Close<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks for signing up!<\/p>\n<p>Watch for us in your inbox.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe Now<\/p>\n<p>SIGN UP NOW<\/p>\n<p>Honey Bear Orchards is family-owned and operated, <a data-ylk=\"slk:according to its website.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.honeybearorchards.com\/about.html\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">according to its website.<\/a> It specializes in growing peaches and other fruits.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc27.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to ABC27.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fri, May 8, 2026 at 1:29 AM UTC Lebanon County orchard closes up shop for the season after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[35945,35946,93,1542,35947],"class_list":{"0":"post-103423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lebanon","8":"tag-fruit-crops","9":"tag-honey-bear-orchards","10":"tag-lebanon","11":"tag-lebanon-county","12":"tag-whtm"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116537092110196054","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}