holland city t v and today we're doing a follow up on the series this summer on the farmer's market again frank interviewing and talking to people but our intent today at the market is to talk about our talk to the vendors the farmers the people who put the produce and the flowers and whatever they have here so it's a day to celebrate but really the hardworking people who really make this mar work so with that we're going to go on to our first interview and we're going to have some exciting times today and for our first interview and i literally just said i i just couldn't  this when our kids were young to put them through school my husband has a full time business and i work two days a week and that office isn't that wonderful now but i she this um it's a big part of it we do her any else we do greenhouse stuff and the produce so we pretty much once we start in the spring we keep rolling and how we put it to bed at the end of october and you have your own greenhouse we do because you're hanging plants i get one every year you do i'm still trying t home i was here a little before six this morning and saturday we get here a little earlier so that is before breakfast in the morning for me i'm so proud of you and your doing something great for the community and for other people and this is the result i could do a lot and i won't can't do any more but you're a fantastic person well i think  ok and for the next interview is exciting is the first one we've got with us anita knight bore correct and from the camera shot i hope they can see in the background the sweet corn and of course all the vegetables and a you're another one of those favorites of this market supposedly well thank you very much and how large is the we have about seventy acres that we own and rent and it is all truck farming which is vegetables and fruits melons and tomatoes and everything you have out here is your own almost everything today we happen to have we have some wonderful customers here the people in holland are really wonderful people here we have a great market and we have many many return customers and we appreciate that let's reverse that they come to you for a grandchildren we have two nieces and nephew and they own man that's worked for us for three or four or five years he's almost like family so that's what it takes that's what it takes they know what they're doing they are one hundred that's a depending on the day but when it's done at dark he's in the field until dark generally but i've or six days a week but you and wayne start out for morning we start a little earlier yeah but the kids start early yeah we don't start quite as early now we used to do like ten twelve fifteen hours a day years ago now it's not quite so bad yeah i know your long days though yeah and it's nice when the weather changes and it starts to get dark earlier that means you have to be and we did lose about fifteen acres of sweet corn for various various reasons yeah it's been a very difficult year this year not just for us for most people in this yeah yeah yeah but it isn't really nice bunch of people that come here we really do a lot of us have been here for several years you've been here for how many years over thirty come on we were one of the first ones when i started in the civic center we were one of the first farmers thirty years over thirty years thirty years now and you sound well you have the first ball here right on it just happened to be the way it worked out over there yeah you got on the end over there and then they got the new market they just picked it up and sat right here  say that the boobie stone here is one of the popular one of the largest and will be and we can see i hope the cameras breaking if your tables you grow enough they grow everything on the table everything on the table daughter and my wife yes well we're actually trying to hold up and get his wife over here because she's such a wonderful for all that all wonderful and here comes the wind and here comes the rain and it's going to not be a the producers and you produce everything on here and so much so thank you for being on and celebrate your wonderful for me thank you so much as i was talking to your husband  anyway thank you for being on or help us celebrate the growers and the thank you dan and look go on to the next interview but we've got three special young ladies here today and we're at a both and you are time gammy gammy yeah  i haven't stolen one yet but you shall we make savory and sweet pies to make eight inch pies in many pints morning pick and lots of goodies made with stuff from the market and they're all made by myself and the dough boys and the robot and the doughboy they make all the cross but you put all this together yeah and pack all the stuff in there that's right all week long all week long and then you're here at the market two days a week for her two days when stand saturday it's spring summer and fall i think there's a message coming meeting kids who today more than you think it's nice to have stuffed the market but you give your life in order that's a wonderful name for but why do you come here and work because it's a wonderful product we truly enjoy it at our home yes i have three teenage boys suing me totally enjoying the benefits of being out here and it's a great place to be meeting other people it's a great time and you know i see spring arbor yeah are you in college also you know we just have my brother out there yesterday and asked and he worked need a little aggressive well you need a partner but you young ladies well young and your mother everybody in my life is young but and thank you for being  joan is the one of the leaders of north holland sheesh i've known her for fifty years more than that right joan what makes you come to the  territory and ask what kind of numbers you were and never ask a woman her age but i want to ask anyway ok ninety one are you ninety one yes i am sir and here you drove over with a lot of people were calling because of the food scares in china and slime and stuff that i've decided start doing the farmer's market selling the beef and we've had a real good response so whenever the end in doing that well we're so proud of you in this market works out well for you and you're making a dollar or two setting up at six in the morning and working until whatever time you were really appreciate it thank you thank you for being on and you know this is this is the pleasure of being here to celebrate today we're celebrating the farmers the growers the producers and you're here with the thank you for being up and here you bet thank you it's me we have a special couple of minutes ago we interviewed has three weeks tomorrow three weeks tomorrow or mom and you have taken him to the market yes you know look at that little guy three weeks from home we had to get some peaches today wanted peaches  but once you come here you're not allowed to the bank of the sad state we're happy here live here we have two kids now we're happy here and walden is almost three weeks oh yes you know i stand here buckeye because we just interviewed the lady who's ninety one and now we get a three week old no question silly but carrying him like that is that comfortable and it works well and it does work barbara who doesn't want to come and step up here barbara because you're all of you are so you know but it is so wonderful that you know as a family barbara has come up here very you are barbara yes ye twenty four hours before something i don't i drive here from kalamazoo that's all i do and i and i do pay where i work in the field for her because that's one of my favorite things to do it's the best summer you job you can ever half self and i've seen fresh produce fresh produce yes definitely and you also oh yes i like to get the things that are just fresh out of the garden especially the tomatoes and that spaghetti squash and i understand the season is well yes i think so but the other part is said to the community thing it's great to see people like you here every time i come so we think we might spend a half hour here we end up spending an hour and a half easily but that's an addiction i have also really it's great to see a lot of people here now you are also here you come and if you have seen the whole show and we hope to have it was today to celebrate interview some of the farmers the producers the various varieties of things that are here at the farmer's market and again what it comes down to is celebrating the market and celebrating the opportunities here at the city of holland this is a phenomenal thing happening and it's just beautiful rita and the gentleman putting this together at  and if you enjoy this kind of film enjoy this kind of thing contact the city hall and let the community cable television know that this is the kind of film you want so thank you for tuning in and we'll see you on another day equally as exciting