A stirring memoir of a young single womans laborious struggle to save her familys New England apple farm from going under during the Great Depression.ampampamp10ampampamp10The Orchard is an exquisitely beautiful and poignant memoir of a young womanampampamp8217s singlehanded struggle to save her New England farm in the depths of the Great Depression. Discovered by the authorampampamp8217s daughter after the authorampampamp8217s death it tells the story of Adele ampampquotKittyampampquot Robertson young and energetic but unprepared by her Radcliffe education for the rigors of apple farming in those bitter years of the early 1930s. Alone at the end of a country road with only a Great Dane for company plagued by debts broken machinery and killing frosts Kitty revives the old orchard after years of neglect.