The founders of Premium Growers, are three friends who grew up in the same rural community in Oregon, attending Gervais high school together. Marty and Brent are the farmers of this business, working the soils of their forefathers some 5 generations before them. Bob is a business man who carries on the tradition of retail entrepreneurialism from several previous generations as well. The heritage of our forefathers while contrasting between farming and retail sales, are similar in many ways. Take away what we lay our hands on during the day, and you’ll find that the three of us utilize the same fundamental approach to perfecting the various aspects of our businesses and daily lives. When Premium Growers started, each of us independently, were looking to diversify what we were doing as an extension to our businesses. Conversations were had and the desire to work together in a business venture came about with hazelnuts at it core. Ironically, shortly after this venture began an old poster was found. It was an advertisement for an auction of farm goods, equipment and animals from the early 1900’s. The poster features Bob & Brent’s great grandfathers working together to host this auction. So here we are repeating history, family & friends from our farming community still working together a 100 years later. We find that it is relatively easy to create great things when your passionate about it. Together we manage this company, growing the nuts and transforming them into tasty and healthy snacks. We do so with pride. In 2017 the three of us came together in an effort to unveil to the world a new version of a very old, healthy snack food. In a desire to take what was already a very tasty snack and make it even better, we began experimenting with roasting the nuts. From BBQ’s to ovens, many variations were tried until one day we happened upon a roasting process that was very unique and from this came an entirely new appreciation for what a hazelnut could taste like.