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4 - Orono Weekly Times 1937 - 2012 · Celebrating 75 Years Wednesday, March 28, 2012 Fopill opines on lush season As the weather this spring has been unseasonably warm, Sunday's spaghetti harvest will be earlier than usual. Proprietor of Sora Fopill Spaghetti Farms in Orono, Rosa Fopill told the Orono Times, "We are thrilled the harvest has come so early. The crop is not only extra long this year but the trees may give us a second harvest if the summer is not too dry". Recent years have seen pests and extra cold winters give rise to poor growing conditions for Sora Fopill Farms creating a spaghetti shortage and raising prices to the consumer. In her childhood Rosa Fopill recalls helping her mother, Sora with the harvest. "We would go into the orchards with ladders and large pairs of scissors and cut string after string of spaghetti from the trees by hand, but Orono Horticultural Society 2012 Board of Directors as pictured: back row - left to right; Dini Schoenmaker, Peggy Blaskie. Middle row: Carol Mostert, Gloria Judd, Aimie Harris, Elizabeth MacLeod, Lorna Atkins. Front row: Cathy Humphrey, Shelley Etmanskie, Gord Humphrey, Gloria Judd, Joan Crawford, Betty Cowan and Carol Bailey. these days the work is done by a special spaghetti harvester. This makes the work much easier". Last year's harvest was hampered by a shortage of workers. Rosa Fopill worries that the farm may not last long after she retires as the younger generation move away from the land to find work in less labour intensive jobs. For Rosa this would mean the end of Sora Fopill Spaghetti Farms. "If the younger generation move away from farming the spaghetti, we will have to let the farm go, and who knows what might be built on the land. I would hate to see my orchard ploughed under for a supermarket selling someone else's spaghetti" Rosa stated. Only this week Sora Fopill Farms received a large order for their product from Italy. The plan, says Rosa, is to try and harvest the first crop this Sunday to fill that order and then hope the weather co-operates so that a second harvest can be taken later on this year. Of the recent heat wave Rosa said, "This has been a boon to us and to the spaghetti industry in general. We hope we have many more springs like this one". Lori Polfa of the Food Ontario Operator Licensing and Education Department and Youth Opportunities Union told the Orono Times, "Sora Fopill Farms is a credit to Durham Region. Here at F.O.O.L.E.D Y.O.U we wish we had more spaghetti farmers just like Rosa Fopill".