Mountain Orchards creates tribute to Jonathan Pitre in cornfield
A Kemptville-area orchard has carved a tribute to Jonathan Pitre into one of its cornfields.
Mountain Orchards, a 50-acre pick-your-own apple orchard, has created a cornfield maze to honour Pitre, the Russell teenager who died in April from complications of a stem call transplant that he hoped would halt the advance of his skin disease, epidermolysis bullosa.
Phil Lyall, co-owner of the orchard, said he has been working on the maze for three months. It features a butterfly and spells out Jonatha
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