Growing up in San Giorgio La Molara, Italy, Pellegrino and Fernando Palma, two brothers, worked on the land with the family growing produce in the mountains of Italy.

Pellegrino migrated in Adelaide, South Australia in 1968 and lived in the Adelaide Hills with his” uncles helping out on their farm and working various jobs to make a living such as Chapmans in” Nairne, SA.

Pellegrino got married in 1976 to Maria and then had two children, Connie and Angelo.” It wasnt until 1979 when Pellegrino and his wife Maria opened up their first fruit and vegetable” shop in the Foodland complex in Mount Barker named “Peters Fruit Bowl”.