'PAW-PAW RENAISSANCE'

Pawpaw growers enjoy ‘renaissance’

By Jonathan Cribbs, americanfarm.com

Elisa Lane, co-owner of Two Boots Farm in Hampstead, Md., stands in a bare, 2-acre pawpaw grove planted by the farm’s previous owner. The native, low-maintenance fruit trees are now 10 percent of the farm’s business, which is focused on cut flowers. (Photo by Jonathan Cribbs)

HAMPSTEAD, Md. — Elisa Lane expected to start a cut flower operation in northern Carroll County when she eagerly upgraded from a community farm plot in downtown Baltimore in 2012, but the pawpaws were a pleasant surprise.

When Lane and her family purchased a 15-acre farm on rolling, wooded hills about 7 miles south of the Pennsylvania border, its previous owner informed her about a small grove of pawpaw trees a short walk across the property.

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