Edwin and Harriet Phipps owned the farm from 1906 to 1934, and their daughter Mildred and son-in-law Martin "Pappy" Grill owned it from 1934 until 1976. The Phipps raised grain, vegetables, and flowers, and were especially known for asparagus, earning Edwin the title "Asparagus King of Hennepin County." The Grills opened the first of a series of vegetable stands on nearby Highway 212 in 1933. Harriet Phipps planted a large peony bed about 1920 that still survives on the east side of the house, and both families hired workers, some of whom roomed in nearby houses. Farm changes included a kitchen addition in 1917 or 1918 with an upper story for hired help, a large brick ice box added to the east wall of the kitchen in the 1920s or 1930s for flowers and household food, electricity installed in 1930, the first bathroom in 1946, a dairy barn built in 1940, and a cement block milkhouse built at an unknown date. A landing strip built on part of the farm in 1937 was used by U.S. Navy planes from old Wold-Chamberlan Field for practice approaches; Pappy Grill sold it in 1943 to American Aviation Corp., which named it Flying Cloud Airport, and the Metropolitan Airports Commission purchased the airport in 1948. The farm was sold to the city in 1976 for parkland. Edwin Phipps came to Minnesota in the 1890s from Calais, Maine, worked as a teamster, and married Harriet Sprague in Minneapolis in 1894. Harriet taught in Stillwater and Minneapolis schools, graduated from the S.S. Curry School of Expressions in Boston, took part in civic causes, and enjoyed poetry and flower gardening. Their daughters were Helen and Mildred, and after Mildred married the Phipps' hired man, Pappy Grill, the Grills, who had no children, relied heavily on extended family for seasonal labor.