120 Years Old

How do you celebrate a 120st birthday?  With a BIG party.  The Hartman Farm in Parma turned 120 this week.  It has been in the family four generations and is healthy, active, and thriving.  Through love, tender care, good business practices and the ability to make changes as farming entered the world of technology, the Hartman family has been able to maintain and sustain their heritage.  Bill and John Hartman along with their wives and two sons are the 21st century care takes.  Well done Hartman family--all four generations.

Not only can they farm, but they can throw a great party.  The doors of the onion warehouse were thrown open and to accommodate the huge crowd of well wishers.  This is the only farm I know of that as a color scheme--teal blue and white.  The work trucks and semis are all painted in these colors.  The warehouse turned into a party house with teal table clothes on dozens of tables with center pieces taken from the fields--onions and various other plants in jars with purple ribbons tied around them.  Great food and live music, people visiting while moving from table to table, rearranging chairs to make room for another person and laughter, made for a good time.

In today's world where we focus so much on the bad, it was refreshing to see so many friends and family come together to celebrate.  Thanks Hartmans' for a good evening. 

The best view of the farm is from the back deck of the house.

Onion field beside the house

    From the fields

Let the fun begin

friends sharing the evening and each other's company

Bill Hartman on left

Bill's wife  Kathy  (my neice)