Chris Grant started farming professionally when he was in high school. He sold pumpkins and vegetables by the side of the road, and then began raising perennials for landscapers and garden centers. He studied agriculture in college and graduated confident he wanted farming to be his career.
The problem was finding land to grow his business on. His family’s farm in Essex wasn’t large enough to sustain the operation he envisioned, but the price of buying a sizable plot of land was just
