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If there was one thing that I could have Americans in general understand about farmers, it would
be the level at which farmers care about what they do.
There's a lot of love and hard work that goes into every container of Gerber Baby Food.
It really all begins with the farmer. Everything has to be perfect.
We look at work as an opportunity. And to be able to take that opportunity, and be able
to feed a hungry world-there's not a higher calling.
I was talking to one of our older growers, and he made the comment that when he was a
little boy, Dan Gerber himself stood in this exact same orchard that we're standing in
right now. And that just-it blew my mind. Gerber has been part of our farming business
for as long as I can remember. A hundred years ago, my grandfather started
this farm. Passing it down from my great-grandfather,
to my grandfather, to my father, who passed it on to my brother and I.
It's not uncommon to have two, three, and in even some in some instances, four generations
of the same family selling to Gerber. And when I'm in the field working with them, you
get a sense of that. Our family is full of hard-working farmer
men and women. It's how we make a living that's important,
and day after day we get an example to show that to our kids.
If we have the kids with us, they're all out there. They're looking and pawing through
the fields, and I think-you know—that's kind of cool.
We bust our tails every day, every year, to deliver the best crop we can.
We know who Gerber's customers are. I'm more than just a farmer, I'm a parent,
which is what drives us to continually raise the bar.
You can go to the store and look at a jar of baby food, and say "yep, I had something
to do with that." We just thoroughly enjoy our work.