A sign over a newly opened retail store at Sarnia’s Vrolyk Farms says, “deeply rooted.”

Members of the family have been farming and growing vegetables on Michigan Line for three generations.

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Arthur Vrolyk, the third generation, said it began with his grandfather, John Vrolyk, who came from the Netherlands in the 1920s and worked at farms to save money before returning to his homeland with a proposal for a young woman named Henny.

“He said, “Listen, I’m going to buy a farm. Do you want to come and be my wife?’”

They married and began farming in Sarnia in 1934, followed by Vrolyk’s father, Arthur Sr., who expanded the farm to approximately 80 hectares.

When he was growing up, there were several potato and vegetable farms in the area with long histories as market gard

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