Farm Visits & Grower Profiles

Johnny's 2021 Grower Profiles

We introduce you to a few of the growers we have the honor to serve, who in turn serve their communities by growing produce that keeps them vibrant and strong.

Here are a couple novel recipes from classically trained, NY Times Bestseller chef Frank Giglio using two of our newer Johnny's-bred varieties.

Johnny's Grower Profile | Louie's Pumpkin Patch, Skövde, Sweden

Johnny's Farm Visit | Mark's Melon Patch – Dawson, Georgia. Mark Daniel started his melon business in his junior year of high school, growing 5 acres of watermelons on his family's row crop farm in southwestern Georgia. "It had never entered my mind that I was going to do this as a living," he says. "I was going to be an ag engineer. But when I started looking for jobs, the idea of working for somebody else just didn't interest me. So I've been doing this for 32 years now..."

Read about Growing Power's growth over the past two decades as a leader in urban farming and sustainable polyculture.

Read about Circle Fresh Farms, an innovative growers consortium based in Denver, Colorado. Browse all of Johnny's 40th Anniversary Farm Visits & Grower Profiles.

Read about Freedom Farms, in Freedom, Maine | Johnny's 40th Anniversary Farm Visits & Grower Profiles

Johnny's 40th Anniversary Grower Profile: Read about Johnny's visit with Jo & Pauline Sleger of Slegers Greenhouses in Strathroy, Ontario, Canada, year-round growers and purveyors of hydroponic greens and 'Living Lettuce.'

Read how Gathering Together Farm started — seed production and market garden produce hand in glove.

Join Johnny's as we visit with Living Water Farms, a leader in greenhouse hydroponic lettuce and microgreens production.

Read about Johnny's visit with Paul & Sandy Arnold of Pleasant Valley Farm, in Argyle, New York.