A truly beautiful section of town, in a beautiful part of the state. Unfortunately, the Stowe's farm I remember from my childhood is no more. I looked past the fact that I was nickel and dimed for every activity offered at the slightly run-down farm (after I was charged $3 a head for admission to basically walk around their field and decide what to spend yet more money on). More important than this was what I saw growing abundantly under almost every tree in the orchard; rampant poison ivy. People were unknowingly traipsing through it while picking apples; the apples on the ground were sitting in poison ivy. I do know that most, if not all, orchards harvest fallen apples for sauces and juices. I am sure these apples go through a sanitizing process when sold commercially, but what about the apples the orchard decides to use for its own baked goods? Not to mention the countless small children I observed climbing around under the trees. Getting poison ivy is certainly no fun,...