ABBOTT FARMS, LLC
BOWLING GREEN, FLORIDA

Windsor Abbott is the fourth generation of Abbotts to farm here. He spearheaded the change from dairy production to crops in 1964. He was the innovative purchaser of welders, front-end loaders, red equipment, and strategic land. He still works 60-hour weeks running equipment, fine-tuning systems, and contributing expertise to projects and decisions. Nancy Abbott hand-picked Windsor for her husband — in the third grade! He stole the erasers off her pencils; she smiled; and the rest is history. She graduated from Cornell with a Home Economics degree in 1956. She taught school locally for a few years, then opened a roadside stand to sell Abbott apples and potatoes. She started the first school tours on the farm and continues in them to this day. She is our master gardener and groundskeeping designer. And expert cook, and babysitter, and apple-grader, and proofreader, and cheerleader, etc etc etc. History of Abbott Farms 1972 Windsor and Nancy built a retail stand to sell farm produce on-site. “Remember way back when the first tractor came to these parts,” he went on. “You were doing good if you could plow an acre or an acre and a quarter in a day. Fellow came up with the tractor and said, ‘I won’t say my tractor is better than your horses, but I’d like to show you what it can do.’ Why, he plowed the straightest, prettiest row you ever saw, and he could do five acres in a day.”