The farm was originally a "small muck-soil vegetable farm" until 1938 when William Herman Bolthouse took it over from his parents. At that point he expanded it and began to concentrate on the production and distribution of carrots. Under his leadership, in 1973, opened a second facility in Bakersfield, CA, where year-round production was possible. His son William J. Bolthouse took over in 1985 upon his retirement. It stayed in family hands until shortly after the death William Herman Bolthouse in 2004 at age 89.