Silent Shade Planting Company is focusing on sustainable, high-quality crops and farming for the future, and that’s been the goal since it got its beginnings in 1979 when Willard and Laura Lee Jack migrated to the Mississippi Delta from Ontario, Canada.
The Jacks both grew up on a farm in Canada, but rapid urbanization of the area limited the possibility of future growth for their farming operation. So, Willard and Laura Lee packed their belongings and moved to the Mississippi Delta, an area with good soil and the opportunity to grow their row crop operation. From there, Silent Shade Planting Company was born, and it’s been going strong and steady ever since.
Silent Shade started out with just 1,000 acres in 1979, and all three of the Jack children worked on the farm throughout their childhood. In 2007, Jeremy Jack, the youngest of the three, returned to the Delta after working in Washington, D.C., to start learning how to run the operation. Today, Willard and Laura Lee are still very involved in the farm, but Jeremy is now the is now the CEO and COO of the operation. With close consultation with his father, Jeremy started to grow the farming operation and the team even more upon his return.
This story is from the October/November 2019 edition of Eat Drink Mississippi.
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