Tony Chater was born in England.

“I left school with dreams of becoming an artist but, in 1972, I went to the Falkland Islands to work as a shepherd on a large sheep ranch. Back then, almost everyone in the Islands grew their own food in the old-fashioned way; using a spade to turn the soil and manure and seaweed to feed it. The vegetables were as fine as a person could eat, I have grown my own organic vegetables ever since.”

Kim Chater was born in Phoenix, Arizona.

“After studying marine science at College of the Atlantic in Maine, I ended up going to sea . I spent the next eight years traveling the oceans on expedition cruise ships; driving boats and giving talks on whales, seals and whaling history.”

Kim met Tony while leading a group of tourists around a vast and smelly penguin colony near his home on New Island, the remotest inhabited island in the Falkland Islands. They were married in 2000 and six years later, while still living in the Falklands, they bought 160 acres of bare land near Pony, Montana.. Their two children, Jack and Rosie, were born in the Islands’ tiny capital, Stanley. The family moved to Montana in 2012 and bought a business known as “Wooly Weed Eaters” using sheep to control grass and noxious weeds without the use of herbicides. Soon afterwards they began building a new house and turning their undeveloped property into Antelope Creek Ranch. Kim took an interest in growing garlic in the garden and, after 9 years, the Chaters decided to go into full-time gourmet garlic production. 

Jack runs his own mobile welding company “Chater Welding and Repair” based in Three Forks, Montana.

Rosie is studying Marine Sciences at the College of the Atlantic in Maine.