Starting with a 10-acre plot, Don Christopher's ranch became the largest garlic grower in the nation and the offbeat Garlic Festival its signature promoter.
Drivers would catch a whiff of Don Christopher’s success miles before they reached Gilroy, the distinctive odor of garlic rolling in through the windows and vents, beckoning motorists straight down Route 101 and into town.
“All you have to do is roll down the window in your car and you know you’re in Gilroy,” Christopher once told the Contra Costa Times. Christopher was born into a farming family in San Jose in 1934. Both his grandfather and father grew plums on 15 acres outside of town, dehydrating them to prunes. While the farm did well, neither the plum nor the prune greatly impressed Christopher.
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