He retired in 2017 and moved to the tree farm. Roland continued to work and make frequent trips to Iowa. Larry’s sister also moved to Iowa and lives in the Cedar Falls area. Within a couple of years, Laura retired from teaching and made the tree farm her semi-permanent location. A house and large metal shed are on the north.Īlthough they had a tree farm in Iowa, Roland and Laura continued to live in California. The Middle Raccoon River, which flows into Lake Panorama, borders the south side of the tree farm. The 13 acres of land where the trees were planted was a pasture surrounded by mature trees on the east and west.
“He wanted to grow sugar maples because they are a nice, fast-growing hardwood tree, and because he wanted to produce maple syrup,” Larry says. Larry and his father planted 1,200 sugar maples in 2010. The tree farm is on Highway 25 north of Guthrie Center near Springbrook State Park. In 2010, they bought the ‘Glades old place’ and started the tree farm.” “Dad worked civil service as a programmer for the Navy for most of his career. My mom was a school teacher. “His retirement plan was planting 1,200 sugar maple trees,” says Larry. Roland and Laura Isom learned to love Iowa when they visited Larry and Heather from their home in California. Larry’s father’s retirement plan was to own and operate a tree farm. Larry is director of engineering at Power Lift in Jefferson. Heather is trained in interior design but “retired” in 2009 when their daughter was born. Sixteen years ago, they settled into a home on Lake Panorama’s Burchfield Cove. They married in 1998 and moved to the Midwest two years later. They met as employees at a local pizzeria in San Luis Obispo where he was attending Cal Poly University. Larry and Heather Isom grew up in California, her on the coast and him near Death Valley.
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