With a history of nearly 90 years of growing asparagus in California and Mexico, the Brock family has pioneered the development and growing of asparagus varieties for arid and semi-arid areas of the world. After extensive research and plant breeding, Brock Seed Company released their first commercial variety in 1984, known as Brock Imperial. Following many more years of additional breeding and testing, a second commercial variety Early California, was released to the public in 2004 patent pendin