The couple purchased the farm in June 2017 and immediately set to work, including cutting weeds and preparing for their farming enterprise. 
By September 2017 Price had made the move to the farm, and that same month they planted the saffron. In October 2017, they had their first harvest.
“It’s a quick one,” she said of that first growing season.
 She said that saffron flowers once a year, in the fall. That first year was both quick and meager – the harvest yielded only about 25 grams of dried saffron. Still, that was enough to give them hope, and it showed them that the plants were healthy and responding.
In the summer of 2018, they had to dig out all of the corms due to rodent issues, after they lost several thousand plants to gophers, Price said.
“Lake County gophers love the taste of saffron. They’re quite gourmet, the gophers here,” said Price.