The Goldberg family has been growing flowers for four generations. During the Great Depression, single mother Gertrude Goldberg and her children began selling flowers purchased from a potato peeler salesman. The farm they started was across the street from a cemetery in Salt Lake City, and business boomed. After World War II and the Korean War, Gertrude’s son LeRoy moved to Oxnard and began his own greenhouse farm named Skyline Flowers. Today, LeRoy’s children and grandchildren continue the family tradition of growing and selling flowers from their nurseries in Oxnard and Nipomo.
Read more about the Skyline Flowers and the Goldberg family in the Winter 2013 issue of The Bloomin’ News!