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    "articleBody": "The Oklahoma farm that Jennifer Garner now owns was paid for with a World War I veteran’s bonus. Her grandfather, Harvey Newton English, used that payout, which the family remembers as $700, to buy a two-room house and 20 acres near Locust Grove in 1936, when steady work was scarce across the country. This year the land reaches 90 years in the same family, and the actress has spent the past nine of them as its owner. The details come largely from Garner’s mother, Patricia English Garner, who wrote a first-person history of the property. She says her parents had never managed to save money and saw the bonus as their single chance to own land. They had no car, so they paid someone to drive them out to see it, and her father spent a full day haggling over a $20 difference before the sale closed. One acre at the center of the parcel was a Native American cemetery. A farm without plumbing Locust Grove is a small town in Mayes County in northeastern Oklahoma, about 47 miles east of Tulsa, with 1,371 residents at the 2020 census. The English farm began with no electricity, running water or indoor plumbing. Power arrived in 1945; Patricia, born on the farm in 1938, says the house still had neither running water nor an indoor bathroom when she lived there. What it did have was soil. Her father kept a garden every year, starting with lettuces and radishes and moving through peas, new potatoes, beets, green beans, tomatoes, onions and cucumbers. Dozens of native pecan trees brought in cash, and the family’s chickens, cows and pigs supplied most of its meat. In the first months Patricia’s mother and grandmother ran the place while her father worked at a Civilian Conservation Corps camp, the New Deal jobs program, some distance away. Four sets of owners, one family The farm has changed hands several times without leaving the family: 1936: Harvey and Violet English buy roughly 20 acres; over the following decades they add about 35 more from neighboring tax-title land, taking it to around 55 acres. After 1962: Harvey dies that spring, and Violet later sells to their son James and his wife, Helen, who add a barn and fencing. 2008: James sells to his brother Robert and Robert’s wife, Janet, who build a modern house on the land. 2017: Jennifer Garner buys it, on the understanding that Robert and Janet stay on and keep working it. By that count the acreage grew to nearly three times its original size, and the deed has passed through three generations. Robert still runs the day-to-day work, and Garner has posted videos from the pumpkin patch with him. From pecans to pouches The purchase came the same year Garner took on a second job. In 2017 she joined Once Upon a Farm, a Berkeley, California, maker of organic cold-pressed baby and children’s food founded in 2015 by Cassandra Curtis and Ari Raz, as a co-founder alongside former Annie’s chief executive John Foraker. The farm has inspired some of the company’s recipes, Robert and Janet have grown organic produce for the brand, and the family story features in its marketing. “It gets to be my family’s farm that’s been with us since 1936,” Garner says on the company’s website. The business has since grown well beyond a celebrity sideline. Once Upon a Farm listed on the New York Stock Exchange in February 2026 under the ticker OFRM, selling 11 million shares at $18 each to raise about $197.9 million. Its filings showed revenue of $176.7 million for the first nine months of 2025, up from $107.6 million a year earlier. That works out to growth of roughly 64%, calculated as the $69.1 million increase divided by the 2024 figure, though the company also reported a net loss of $39.8 million for the period. Its products are stocked in more than 2,800 stores. Garner has described her role in practical terms, saying she builds relationships with retailers and works with the sales, marketing and supply chain teams. Her mother’s essay ends on a forward-looking note about the farm itself, saying that her daughter “has plans to give our place a new life.” The next milestone is a round one: in 2036 the Locust Grove land will mark a full century in the English family’s hands. Further reading Wikipedia: Locust Grove, Oklahoma Image: Karon Liu, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons This article was produced with AI assistance and reviewed by our Editorial Desk. How we work.",
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