"I've never seen one at all, especially around here," says Melissa Miller of the tornado that tore through one of the fields at Miller Farms on June 7. "We were out working in the fields; it was a totally normal day. My dad was doing tractor work right behind where it touched down, my brother-in-law was out there, my sister was harvesting asparagus. Then we saw a dust devil, looked up and saw the tornado touching down."
Melissa and her siblings are the third generation to work the Platteville farm that was purchased by her grandparents, Roy and Dorothy Miller, in 1949. It's now owned by her parents, Joe and Chris Miller, and the whole family pitches in, planting and harvesting, running events like the popular fall festival and wagon sale, and selling produce every week at a long list of local farmers' markets.