Proprietors: Hatsuyo Noda (Mama Chino) and Junzo Chino emigrated from Japan to California in the 1920’s. Hatsuyo died in 1990; Junzo died in 1991.
Interred with their family of 7 (eventually 9) children during the war for three years in Poston, Arizona.
Present day proprietors: Tom Chino, president of Chino Nojo, Inc. and his wife Nina MacConnel along with Kazumi (Kay), Tom’s sister, Frank (master woodworker) and Fred Chino, Tom’s brothers.

55 acres and a stand called The Vegetable Shop

Alice Waters and Wolfgang Puck were the first to use these exceptional vegetables back in 1971 and 1982 respectively.

Mara Des bois-, developed in France with a powerful foretaste of the intoxicating European wild strawberries.
Tiny conical Alpine strawberry variety in red and white.
50 varieties of melons
60 varieties of lettuces
Red Japanese carrots
Purple Chinese longbeans
Purple Okinawan sweet potatoes
Sweet multi-colored Indian corn
Cherokee Purple tomatoes
Caspian pink tomatoes
Mr. Stripey tomatoes
Pink Grapefruit tomatoes
Mini Capri pink tomatoes
Favorita tomatoes

Sweet Orange Cherry tomatoes
Yellow Sweet Gold tomatoes

Moch-making Ceremony each year in late December.