History

Our beautiful farm holds a rich history of 137 years of ancestry in horticulture and agriculture as a 1886 century farm.  Sara Van Beck’s great-grandfather, Anton Wilwerding, migrated to the area from Germany in 1902 and started King’s Lake fruit farm. Sara’s grandfather, John Wilwerding, discovered he was allergic to bees so he converted the fruit farm into a dairy farm. In John’s later years the barn burnt down and John and Janette Wilwerding built Golden Plump chicken breeder barns in 1953. Sara’s parents, Glen and Betty Wilwerding, crop farmed the original farm site from 1973 to 2000 while operating their dairy across the road. Glen and Betty have both passed away and to carry on the farm's heritage, Noah and Sara have brought back every animal species and more to the farm her grandpa John once owned and housed on the property.