Opening day at the first Town & Country Market, on Bainbridge Island, in 1957.
Longtime shoppers at Town & Country’s six supermarkets across the region know to look for the zucchinis, sunflowers, lettuce, and squash that come straight from the company’s Bainbridge Island farm. But few know how the history of the farm intertwines with that of the markets and the Nakata family—the multigenerational tale of a country that turned its back on immigrants and a community that refused to.
When Jitsuzo and Shima Nakata wanted to buy a 15-acre Bainbridge Island strawberry farm in 1924, a quarter century after moving to the US, alien land laws
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