gordon bennett, a cousin of the loomis family, still lives in the area and takes great pride in remembering what his family did. >> the farm, the end result was everything paid off. he did the right thing, and we were on the right track to begin with. >> especially during that time where there was a lot of fear of the war and there was a lot of prejudice. you know, prior to world war ii, there was a lot of prejudice against the asians in general. and so, for a local family to step up like that against a lot of the community was very brave of them. >> today the whole ikeda family takes great satisfaction in the fact that they farm across the same fields their ancestors did nearly 90 years ago. and today they have grown so large that they estimate that nearly 35 million people are eating pove produce annually. they farm everything from bok choy to lettuce to spinach, but they're best known internationally for napa cabbage. in fact, they are now the largest grower and shipper of it in the world. >> napa cabbage, we started growing that back in the fifties. and it's really taken off in populari