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Jackson01_bizEvolution
We've evolved over the years, but at this point, we are probably marketing about 50 acres of vegetables, most of them through our roadside market. We have about an acre and a half of greenhouses that we do bedding plants, hanging baskets. We've been in a 3-year project; we've been growing some greenhouse raspberries, kind of an experiment that we've been working with some greenhouse raspberries. We do, right now we have six acres of u-pick strawberries, mostly u-pick strawberries. We grow about 40 acres of pumpkins as part of the vegetables that we grow and we market almost entirely all of our pumpkins here at the retail, we retail them here. So, we're wide-range, from the vegetable farm or they can come get food to eat or they can come here in the Fall for entertainment. And that's really what we do in the Fall is a lot of entertainment farming. That's really what's allowed us to expand to a 4-family operation, where Jean and I started back in the late 60s, just the two of us, a mom-and-pop operation and now we have all three of our children are involved and Jean and I are still here. We're trying to slow down, step out, but as over the years the business has grown, and so there's still parts of it that we do, but a lot of the work part is done by the children actually, our kids. Brian's 35 and Jennifer's, I think, 28 and Bonnie's in the middle there someplace, so.
