07 Dec, 10
Buurma Farms, Inc. is a privately held corporation with farms in Gregory, Michigan and Willard, Ohio. It was founded in 1896 by Frans (Frank) Buurma, a Dutch immigrant. In the early 1890's, Frank worked as a farm laborer in the celery fields near Kalamazoo, Michigan. Word came to him that swamp land was available for purchase at modest prices in an area just south of what is today Willard, Ohio.
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