Photo Gallery: You Have To Get Up Pretty Early....

Despite being submerged in several inches of water following Hurricane Irene last month, Dreyer Farms - an actual working farm in Cranford - continues to harvest fruits, vegetables and plants.

Workers arrive to the farm early in the morning. Some head to the field behind the store on Springfield Avenue, a block away from Union County College. Others get busy setting up the store, meticulously picking through cotainers of beans and cherry tomatoes and making sure everything is ready for the customers to arrive. It's been that was since the early 1900s.

In 1904, brothers Gustav and Henry Dreyer purchased adjacent farms on Springfield Avenue. Their acreage grew and shrank over the next 50 years until it ended up the size it is now. Today the business is called Dreyer Farms not Dreyer's Farm reflecting the two families and two businesses. In 1949, Henry's daughter-in-law, Henrietta, opened the roadside market. Henry and Henrietta's two sons, Henry Jr. and John continue to run the farm today.

See more about Dreyer Farms and their efforts to re-open the business following the hurricane in our Dispatches: The Changing American Dream piece, coming next week.