An apple farm near Yucaipa, historically a popular destination for local school districts getting hands-on history lessons, is hoping to keep the lights on via a crowdfunding campaign.
“Okay, how to put this..?” A post on the Riley’s Farm Facebook page on Tuesday, July 21, reads in part. “Our best hope for saving Riley’s Farm is for our crowd-lend program to BLOW THROUGH our established limits and raise substantially more than $200,000. We have dutifully pursued every (Small Business Administration) option we can find, (alongside of this effort), and let’s just say the lending requirements don’t favor frontline businesses that were battered, heavily, by the Covid lockdowns.”
Established in 1986, Riley’s American…