a peice of the story

Two children, a girl in a blue jacket and a boy in a white hoodie, smiling and sitting on a blooming tree branch with white flowers outdoors, under a cloudy sky.

Like all good stories, this is a story rooted in love.

The seeds of this story were planted way back in the 1970's, when I, Lalita, moved to Kaleden and met the Hayter family. As a youth I would love, laugh, dance, sing, and play on these lands with the Hayter cousins Kris and Myron, eating Grandma Hayters cinnamon toast after school. This family would take over my heart.

Life would happen and we would lose the Hayter cousins at a young age. Grief would move my feet to travel, but eventually these feet would bring me back home to raise my own family.

To return a lifetime later to these lands and these beautiful people completes a circle in my life, full bloom.

It is my honor to be given the opportunity to operate Frog City Cafe with my husband and hold space for love, laughter, dancing, singing, and playing.

This is a love story. This is Frog City Cafe.

Ken and margaret hayter

A man carrying a woman outdoors in a garden at sunset, surrounded by green trees and plants, with a wooden house in the background.

they dreamed this place. built every piece of it. they continue to make it their joy.

LINDEN GARDENS