Rhonda Landry-Poché remembers picking strawberries with her Paw Paw side by side, as he told her to pick them fast and by the stems.
Her grandfather was the second owner of the family farm, taking over in the 1930s, and he and his family put in years of long hours of manual labor to ensure the success of the strawberry business.
“He’d sit in the rocking chair and talk to the kids about his mule named Ada, and how they didn’t have tractors then (on the farm) and how he and his mule would work,” Landry-Poché said…