Brian and Beth were born and raised in the Central Illinois corn belt and also spent some of their early years on family farms in Northwest Missouri. After marrying in 1985, they moved to Nashville, TN where Brian attended a mechanics school and began his career. When their first child was born, they moved back to NW Missouri to be near Beth’s family.

As their family grew, they knew they wanted to get back to the country so their kids could have some of the experiences that they had had. Over time they purchased a total of 80 acres of Beth’s parent’s farm which had been row cropped with a corn/soybean rotation for many years.

Wanting to eventually be able to make a living from the farm and knowing that it was to small for any type of conventional farming they began to research other avenues of alternative farming.

They began improvements to the farm by putting about 65 acres in a grass/legume pasture to be used later for rotational grazing allowing them to raise natural beef , pastured poltury, and even a milk cow or two.

During this time, Brian and Beth were team driving a truck across the country hauling mainly produce from California to the Midwest. After seeing how the food was grown and then packaged for shipment, they realized how great the need was to provide naturally grown produce in their own area. So began four years of research and development of how to take what had always been for them a large family garden and turn it into a five acre market garden that could supply the type of produce that their local community needed and over time allow them to be able to make a living off of the farm.

In 2005, they began to supply the best naturally grown produce they could produce to Hamilton and the surrounding communities.

Each year brings new challenges and more learning but their goal of providing only the very best naturally grown produce to their community remains the same.