- So you've known it your whole life.

So you grew up with this.

- Yes.

Mm-hmm.

- When did it start?

- So in the '70s, the Midland Coal Company was mining an area and the manager planted a few apple trees on some of the coal company's land because he liked apples and wanted to give back to the land.

And he asked the high school FFA kids in the area to help take care of the trees.

And my dad was a freshman in high school when they started, when they had their first crop of apples.

And he took an interest in it.

And by the time he graduated, he eventually bought the land that had the trees on it from the coal company in the '80s.

- Oh, so not when he was in high school though.

- Well, I mean, he was taking care of the trees when he was in high school and then rented it and eventually bought the land in the '80s.

- Well, that's pretty cool.

- Mm-hmm.

- So the coal company that was strip mining and destroying the world decided, "Oh, we're gonna put up some apple trees because we want to give back."

- Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, if it wasn't for that, we wouldn't be here.