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The Story of Grey Duck
Our Organic Garlic Farm is Named to Honor Our Father/Grandfather Lee
"Let me think, said Grey Duck," Lee would reply when confronted with a question from one of his seven children. As a child in the early 1900’s he had a school primer with tales of Grey Duck’s adventures. Later Grey Duck would appear to help answer inquiries from his children. His offspring carried on the tradition with their own children.
Grey Duck Garlic is named in honor of our late Father and Grandfather Lee. He was a strong but gentle man who always stood up for what was right. At the end of his life Lee, an engineer, told his daughter Jane that he regretted nothing. "I have gone from plowing wheat fields with a team of horses to designing parts for the space shuttle,” he said, “I have had a full life and have seen and done more than I could have imagined."
Father and Grandpa Lee in 1927 plowing behind his team of horses.
Lee was a wonderful man who refused to plant a garden after he left the farm as a young man. He said he had grown enough food for his lifetime. He was very intelligent and would appreciate the irony of his daughters and granddaughters returning to their roots and naming their farm after him!
Lee (2nd child from right) and his mother and siblings (lined up in order of age). Lee is already taller than his older brother and would eventually outgrow all his brothers. Their father was absent most of the year so Lee’s older brother Steve quit school and took over the farm at 12 years old. Steve went on to be a very successful farmer.
Lee had a soft heart and refused to participate in butchering so he was responsible for plowing, harvesting and anything that required size and muscle.
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