I cannot give specific names, but I can say that I know someone who met the father of her child there, and that she—without giving names, I can just say that the co-op has brought people together in a lot of ways, and that's just a beautiful... The words were: he walked by, and I said, “That is the father of my children—going to be.” Yeah.

We had an old baby scale, and my child, my daughter Brahma, who was born at home, we didn't have a scale to weigh her, so a few days after her birth, we brought her there to use the co-op scale to weigh her.

My nephew would not exist if it weren't for the co-op. My sister was working at the co-op, and she married the deli manager, who moved here for that job. They have a son together, and he's now about to go to college. So that's how long ago it was.

And, in fact, Pauline, our daughter, who now runs the farm, while she was a baby, I did a lot of deliveries and, you know, she was there in the car seat. And so now she's arranging the deliveries and growing the product. The co-op is so much a part of my family.

My father was on the board of directors and my mom did some volunteer work packaging peas and carrots. And, you know, my sister worked here. My dad also, when he retired, he became a grower that sold produce to the co-op before I was produce manager.

It's very integral to the lives of all these people. And we've watched their kids be born and grow up and have babies of their own. And those babies are now walking down the aisles as 25-year-olds or something. And it's something to think back on all the decades.