As the eighth generation to run the family farm, Peter Rogers owns and operates Rogers Orchards, a 275-acre farm located in central Connecticut and dating back to 1809. Rogers Orchards is focused on growing quality apples, peaches and pears suitable for its Connecticut soils and New England growing seasons but also is vertically integrated to ensure the customer receives its fruit at its very peak. Peter continues to focus on transitioning the farm’s growing practices to more intensive planting systems, developing new markets and implementing advanced IPM practices under the EcoApple Program.
Peter received a B.A. in Economics from Trinity College in Hartford, CT in 2002. After college, he worked in investment banking for six years. Before returning to the farm, he apprenticed at two large multigenerational growers in the Netherlands in 2008. Peter looks forward to expanding his horticultural knowledge and applying it in practice.