Homegrown and Handpicked

Quality and Care from Tree to Table

Knouse Foods is a Grower-Owned Fruit Cooperative. Together as a company, with more than 100 family farms throughout the Appalachian Valley, we bring fruit to consumers across the country.

Our Cooperative started more than 100 years ago, with families of farmers expanding their apple orchards and needing a place to sell their fruit. Knouse Foods is now one of the largest processors and innovators of apple products in North America and sells our products under the brands  Musselman’s and Lucky Leaf.

Our company and our family farmers have evolved well beyond just growing apples. Today, we also make products from locally grown cherries, peaches, blueberries, and more. Many of our growers are 4th and 5th generation, farming families. It’s in their nature to put care into each cherry tree grown, each apple picked, and each peach crate filled.

These farming families are the reason our products are recognized as symbols of tradition, high quality, and value to generations of so many other families.