Scott Swanson
Samantha Franks carefully and deftly sliced into the stem of a cider apple as Miranda Justus and her son Sawyer, of Lebanon, watched closely.
Franks, of Elmira, was one of more than a dozen volunteers who participated in a Spring Propagation Fair held Sunday afternoon, March 20, at the Sweet Home Charter School by the Agrarian Sharing Network. She was about to graft the apple stem to rootstock to form a tree for…