Last year, the City of Sebastian awarded Laura LaPorte and Laporte Farms a proclamation noting its 30 years in operation. She died Monday at age 67.

Laura Laporte, the founder and owner of LaPorte Farms, a well-known petting farm in Sebastian, has passed away. She established the 5-acre, non-profit ...

Laura Ten Eyck started working at her family’s business, Indian Ladder Farms, when she was just 5 years old.“ My father was a teenager, and started selling apples off the front porch,” she said.