Tonka Traditional Cache
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In all my 38 years of living in the area and passing by this location many times, I only discovered this really cool place existed today. I thought to myself that this place needs a geocache. Walk up the path on the right of the truck. Happy hunting. Steve Murray was born to a farmer, a father who was a farmer like the father before him, 5 generations strong. Steve was on the path to following those footsteps, carrying on the legacy of farmers. He lost his father at the age of 18, at a time when Steve was attending college to compliment generations of traditional knowledge of the land with a degree in plant sciences. This upset would cause them to lose everything they had but Mr. Murray doubled down and struggled through this difficult period, eventually graduating from college to become a member of the agriculture industry as a consultant. His heart still rested in his families heritage, knowing someday he would have his own farm. He steeled that wish - to return to his roots - in his heart for years, and met his wife Vickie, who worked in restraunts. They shared a passion for the land in different ways. In 1983 he would get closer to his goal, starting S.M. Apiaries. It quickly grew to 300 beehives, and gave him the windfall he needed to take the next big jump. They traded their small Bakersfield home for a 20 acre table grape farm in the country, and sectioned off 10 of those acres to try out growing cherries in the valley. They would go on to sell produce from a small table and tent in front of their acreage off the edge of the 58 free-way, traveling hundreds of miles to attend Farmers Markets with children in tow. It would take another 6 years before their test cherries would harvest, and it was immediately apparent that their choice to try out cherries would become a special one. The mixture of the placement of the mountains and nutrients of the soil matching the cherries natural chemistry. They were featured in the L.A. times for having the best cherries at the Hollywood Farmers Market in only it's 11th year, giving them the boost they needed to trade the small road side tent for a trailer that could be air conditioned by way of fans, open doors and area coolers. In 2001 the Murrays would open up a Fruit stand that would eventually grow to become what we know today as the Big Red Barn, affectionately called the "BRB" by many young people who they would come to hire. Mrs. Murray would begin working on plans for a harvest festival, an invitation to families to come see their farm and pick their own produce.
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