Cheryl Orlando, store owner, does a quality check on the blackberries at Andy’s Produce 3 in Washington, Mo. While the stands sells local produce from around Missouri, they also buy in bulk from around the country, allowing for accessible pricing of healthy foods by setting prices sometimes at 25% of standard chain grocery store prices in the area. 

Andy Orlando, Cheryl Orlando’s father and owner of the original Andy’s Produce, unloads bundles of decorative corn stalks with Cheryl to sell at Andy’s Produce Too. Andy grew up in St. Louis with his father Vito “Willy” Orlando, and learned about the produce business from him. This led to him opening his own produce stand on April 23, 1992 in House Spring, Mo.

Kai Mohesky, 1, helps her mother Cheryl Orlando put price tags on decorative gourds at Andy’s Produce Too. Kai grew up around the produce stands and family farm, the fourth generation of Orlandos to grow up in the produce business. Running around the stores, Kai has met hundreds of locals before she has turned 2. “Kai knows no strangers,” Lydia Orlando, Cheryl’s aunt, said. 

As it reaches harvest season, Andy Orlando throws a gourd over to Jesse Mohesky, husband of Cheryl Orlando, as they gather them for selling at their produce stores at Cheryl and Jesse’s farm. Cheryl and Jesse grew corn and gourds in the garden plots during the fall to sell as decorations.

Cheryl Orlando moves the register's tills to the front, prepping the store before it opens in Washington, Mo. While Cheryl runs the businesses, she also works shifts at them, alternating each day. 

Sharing a moment before they both spend a day apart, Cheryl Orlando and Jesse Mohesky say goodbye early in the morning at their home. Cheryl moved home in 2015 to begin working with her father, Andy Orlando, at the family businesses. It was in that time after returning that Cheryl met Jesse, and they eventually married in 2022. 

Cheryl Orlando finds a quiet moment in the morning as she applies makeup at her home. Being the face of the business and taking care of her daughter puts her in social settings for most of the day. Cheryl has found the early mornings to be her chance to be alone. “I value that time, before even Kai or Jesse wake up, to be alone,” she said. 

With the TV on one of Kai Mohesky's, 1, favorite movies, "Despicable Me 2," Cheryl Orlando splits her attention between cooking dinner and keeping up with her daughter at their home. Giuseppe Orlando, patriarch of the Orlando family, immigrated to America from Sicily with his wife and 14 children, including Vito Orlando, Cheryl’s grandfather, selling produce door-to-door. She carries on the family lineage and type of work with the Andy’s produce line.

Cheryl Orlando lifts Kai Mohesky, 1, into the seat of a forklift at Andy’s Produce Too. Throughout the course of a day, Kai joined her mother at the shop in the morning and sat on her grandfather’s lap in the tractor as her father picked gourds to sell in their stores. The Orlandos found a balance between business and family by having them so closely intertwined.