Roots in Cache Valley since 1987

It started with one field and a stubborn idea

In 1987, Earl and Diane Payne bought a tired five-acre plot outside Mendon with the idea that good food should come from a place you could actually drive to. They planted sweet corn, tomatoes, and squash that first summer and sold it from the back of a pickup at the end of the lane.

Word traveled. Neighbors came back week after week, and the patch of corn became a vegetable garden, then rows, then a proper farm. Today their son Marcus and his wife Holly run the day-to-day, with Earl still walking the fields most mornings.