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The Maple Acres family includes Scott
& Sally McCracken, Millie McKeown, Terry McKeown, and Gary McKeown.
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About Us
Purchased
in 1912 when it was just 12 acres,
Maple Acres Farm nears its centennial celebration. "There's something
to be said for staying in one spot for so long." Sage words
of Brian McCracken but his mother, uncles, grandparents, great-grandparents,
have lived and worked the farmland on Narcissa Road, right behind
the Plymouth Meeting Mall, for four generations.
"I've been farming all my life" says Gary McKeown.
Gary has
preserved the Maple Acres Farm, named by his mother Millie, as it
expanded to thirty acres. "My father would pick corn for me to
sell after school as soon as I was old enough to count money."
Gary still lives in the 18th-century farmhouse that he grew up in,
a workload unto itself.
"There's so much to running this place. It's not the same farm
it was fifty years ago." says Gary McKeown. "You wake up each
day thinking you're going to do one thing and end up doing another."
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