my grandfather came here, originally from san juan bautista, probably growing hay and stuff out there. but he heard about the lettuce industry in the earla 1920s, s he moved my family here to castroville and started farming lettuce. >> the two families came together, and we'd always been farming collectively together. they had their separate farming operation. we had our separate harvest and marketing. and what we did in 1982 is we formed tanimura & antlewhere we've created a vertically integrated company where we had the farming, the harvest, the cooling and marketing all under one umbrella. so from a very humble beginning in 1982 to what we have today, it was really the--you know, the respect that the two families have had for over 50 years. >> today the tanimura family and the antle faly farm more than 30,000 acres and assure excellence all the way from the seed to your salad. hand selected, picked, and washed, every step to ensure food safety is taken here. and as a result, tanimura & antle is now one of america's premiere fresh produce farming operations with over 40 varieties of