Welcome to Rodgersgreensandroots.com!
After three months of hard work and an amazing website designer – Amber Leah Stidham, we finally launched our first website! I am thrilled to be able to take online sign-ups for our 2018 Farm Box Program!
I am looking forward to sharing our farm bounty for many years to come. Over the years I have created and maintained many friendships within the community around the produce I have grown. There is nothing that brings me more joy than knowing the families we are feeding. I look forward to getting to know each and every one of you for many years to come.
I cannot help but think of my dad on this momentous occasion. I can picture how overjoyed he would be with the farm’s first website and all we have created this last year and a half.
For my first blog post on the site I thought it only fitting to share about the importance he has played in the creation of this farm.
It is with every move I make creating and building this farm that I think about my father. My Dad passed away very suddenly 7 years ago (two years into my farming career). He was always a business man, an entrepreneur, and the person I went to with all my creative ideas. He never second guessed that I, at 22 years of age wanted to be a farmer. With a degree in Business Administration under my belt I always knew I wanted to own my own business. A dream he and I shared together. As his only heir, my dad left me a small amount of money that he had worked his whole life for. After his passing I spent the next 5 years continuing to farm, unlike most farmers I was fortunate to now have the financial ability to put a down payment on my own land. Rodgers Greens and Roots or RGR farms celebrates my dad’s legacy and the family business I plan on growing. The idea of Rodgers Greens and Roots Farm is not only a family farm that celebrates what I have excelled at growing during my career: greens and roots, but also a celebration of my father, Robert George Rodgers. RGR. Thank you for all your guidance, I hope I can make you proud.
I couldn’t have done this without you Dad, and a lot of my own blood, sweat, tears and backbreaking hard work.