Apple growers on Prince Edward Island are ending the 2022 season on a historic low, following storm Fiona. Damage from the storm has wiped out virtually all of this year's apple harvest, and with it, a decade of rapid expansion. Fiona knocked about "four million pounds" of apples off trees, according to Geoff Boyle, president of the P.E.I. About 20 per cent of the Island's half million apple trees were destroyed. Apple orchards take about five years to reach commercial production, and this was supposed to be the year that all those years of effort began to bear fruit.
