After coping with an unstable economy for approximately four years, Greg and Susan Pruett partnered up with their neighbors, the Gilberts, to create Gilbert-Pruett Local Family Farms in Princeton. Now they have a thriving business, allowing them to grow so much the families have to split up every weekend to sell at local farmers markets.


"We grow about 22 acres of okra and probably six to eight of squash, yellow and zucchini, 15 to 16 acres of cantaloupes and probably two acres of onions," Pruett said. "We grow a little dab of asparagus, spinach -- stuff like that -- potatoes, tomatoes, not a whole bunch, we get a lot of our stuff from East Texas, but we grow some. We grow cilantro, beets, turnips, green beans we grow just about all the vegetables."