For four generations, the Sorbello family has grown fruit and vegetables in Mullica Hill. The orchards of apples, pears, plums, peaches, nectarines, and rows of vegetables became a seasonal tradition, drawing thousands of families each autumn.
Fred “Farmer Fred” Sorbello, who began working on the farm at age 8 and inherited it at 23, later built one of the largest food logistics companies in the world, with operations across Europe, South America, Australia, the UK, and North America.
Despite that success, he returned to farming in 2006 to honor his grandparents, Italian immigrants who settled in New Jersey in the 1920s. “Of all my business successes, nothing measured up to farming, and all the memories it brought back to me of growing up on a farm,” the farm’s website reads…