CULTURE + ENTERTAINMENT
It’s not every day you meet the “ Rhubarb King .” Sanderson Gardens ’ owner Jan Sanderson (in his infamous overalls) invited 605 onto his 40 acres of farmland in Aurora just east of Brookings. “When I first moved here, I was five miles out of town,” said Jan. “Now I'm three and a half, so Brookings is going to be in my backyard here pretty quick. I consider myself a Brookings resident.”
For decades, people have been coming to the family- owned business for crops like strawberries, pumpkins and gourds, raspberries, aronia berries, asparagus, horseradish, and—you guessed it—rhubarb. Jan had us load up into a tractor-pulled wagon alongside his sons, Noah and Jake , his daughter in law, Alex , and some of his grandchildren. The brothers were sporting the company’s newest embroidered sweatshirt merch that his wife had recently designed. As we began moseying through the fields, Jan hopped over the side and whipped up a large piece of rhubarb.
JAN SANDERSON
MODEL BEHAVIOR Jake used to model in New York and now is the Sanderson Gardens in-house merch model (shown on page 68).
ROAD TRIP ISSUE may 2026
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